Edith Ostlere

Edith Elizabeth Bury Gayer Mackay (12 August 1871 – 12 September 1931 Paul Kauvar, A Gaiety Girl (1895), One of the Best (1895–1896), A Bunch of Violets (1896–1897), The Seats of the Mighty (1896–1897), The Baron's Wager (1897), More than Ever (1897), The Man in the Iron Mask (1899) Kenyon's Widow, The Squire, A Fool's Paradise, and Dr. Wake's Patient (1905–1906).

Ostlere was also a writer. She wrote short stories, contributed a chapter to a collaborative novel in 1892, The Port Arms (1909), A Midnight Visitor (1911), A Thief (1914), and The Prize (1915),

Works A 'Novel' Novel: A Strange Story. Twenty Chapters by Twenty Authors (1892, contributor) From Seven Dials (1898, short stories) "The Perfidious Frenchman" (1902, short story) Dr. Wake's Patient (1904, play, with W. Gayer Mackay) The Knees of the Gods (1905, one-act play)

Personal life Ostlere was born Edith Elizabeth Bury in Surbiton, Surrey, the daughter of Henry Cox Bury and Catherine Blanche Mousley Bury. They separated in 1897, and divorced in 1906. She married her writing partner, actor and playwright William Gayer Starbuck Mackay, in July 1907. He died in 1920, and she died in 1931, in her sixties, in London.