Edith Emily Money

Edith Emily Money Maturin Porch (; 25 June 1860 – 8 October 1945), known by the pseudonyms Mrs. Fred Maturin and Edith Cecil-Porch, was a British travel writer, novelist, journalist, and magazine writer.

Biography Money Maturin was born Edith Emily Money on 25 June 1860 in Naini Tal, British India (present-day Nainital, India) to Lieutenant Colonel Edward James D'oyly Thrale Money and Georgina Mary Money (née Russell). In 1882, she married Colonel Fred Maturin in Darjeeling. They would have three children, including actor Eric Bagot Maturin. She separated from Maturin and had an affair with Lt. Colonel Cecil Porch after they met in Rhodesia. The Maturins had a public divorce proceeding and she and Porch had a short-lived marriage. Her book Rachel Comforted (1920) purported to be a series of spirit communications from 1901 and 1902 with her then-recently deceased son Gordon.