Ella Lindow

Ella Lindow aka Gabrielle Wodnil and Ella Wodnil (12 February 1880 – 27 April 1933) was a British novelist and songwriter.

Life Lindow was born in 1880 in Islington. She was the only child of Angelina (born Levy in London) and her Russian born husband Joseph Lindow. Her father dealt in diamonds and he had been married before, giving her seven elder half-siblings who had been born in America and Germany.

In 1912 she published her first novel as "Gabrielle Wodnil" with the title Maggie of Margate: a Seaside Sensation, which fitted in with a trend to have alliterative titles that included the name of a resort reachable on the railway. but the boss does not know that and she says "Oh Sir you mustn't talk like that with you a real gentleman and me just a poor girl". Mike's offer to Maggie includes a career on the stage in the musical theatre. The beach novel

Death and legacy Lindow's Maggie of Margate was republished in 1926 in paperback. She died in 1933 in Hampstead.