Mary Patchett
(December 2, 1897 – 1989)
Mary Osborne Elwyn Patchett was a UK-resident Australian pro writer of children's fiction in various genres, including seven sf novels with most published under the gender neutral name M. E. Patchett. She attended Festivention in 1951, the London SF Con in 1952, and Coroncon in 1953.
She had moved to London in 1931 where she worked first as a freelance writer and then as a beautician and dietitian. During the Second World War she was a censor based in Gibraltar and Bermuda. She returned to the UK and started writing books around 1949–50, and joined the British Interplanetary Society to help her to research her novels, at the time one of only three women to have been admitted to the Society. She was also a correspondent of Rockets, the journal of the United States Rocket Society.
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