Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 – 31 March 1927) was a British theosophist and author of over 46 books.

Life

Collins was born in St Peter Port, Guernsey. She was a writer of popular occult novels, a fashion writer and an anti-vivisection campaigner. In 1909 she wrote a political play called ''Outlawed'' with

Alice Chapin Alice Chapin or Alice Ferris (August 28, 1857 – July 5, 1934) was an American actress, playwright and suffragette active in England. She returned to America and played roles in silent films. Life Chapin was born in Keene, New Hampshire to Ephr ...

. Chapin was an American born actress who was an active suffragette. By the time it was produced at the Court Theatre in November 1911 Chapin was a convicted criminal for her militancy.

Gossip

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prop ...

claimed that

Vittoria Cremers Vittoria Cremers (''Vittoria Cassini''; born c. 1859), was an Italian Theosophist. Early years Cremers was born in Pisa, Italy, and was the daughter of Italian Manrico Vittorio Cassini and his British wife, Agnes Elizabeth Rutherford. Career Cr ...

had suggested that Collins was at one time being romantically pursued by both Cremers and alleged occultist

Robert Donston Stephenson Robert Donston Stephenson (also known as Roslyn D'Onston) (20 April 1841 – 9 October 1916) was a British writer and journalist, chiefly known for having been made a potential suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation and for his personal th ...

. Cremers supposedly claimed that during this time she found five blood-soaked ties in a trunk under Stephenson's bed, corresponding to the five murders committed in Whitechapel by

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Works

*''Light on the Path'' (1885) *''The Prettiest Woman in Warsaw'' (1885) *''Through the Gates of Gold'' (1887) *''The Blossom and the Fruit'' ( 1887) *''The Idyll of the White Lotus'' (

1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship '' ...

) *''Morial the Mahatma'' ( 1892) *''Suggestion'' ( 1892) *''Juliet’s Lovers'' (1893) *''The Story of the Year'' (1895) *''The Star Sapphire'' ( 1896) *''A Cry From Afar'' (1905) *''Loves Chaplet'' (1905) *''Fragments of Thought and Life'' (1908) *''Outlawed'' (1909) with

- a play staged in 1911Maggie B. Gale, 'Chapin, Harold (1886–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 201
accessed 9 Nov 2017
/ref> *''When the Sun Moves Northward'' (1912) *''The Transparent Jewel'' (1913) *''The Story of Sensa'' (

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...

) (A mystery play in three acts adapted from The Idyll of the White Lotus). *''As the Flower Grows'' (1915)

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Mabel Collins biography
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