Mabel E. Wotton

Mabel Elizabeth Emily Wotton (1863–1927) was an English writer.

Life Mabel E. Wotton was born in London to Frances Emily and John Stirling Wilmot Wotton, a civil servant. (Note that her Times death notice gives her father's name as Henry Stirling Wotton. Wotton and Zangwill kept up a friendship and correspondence until at least 1920. Zangwill based the character Margaret Engelborne in The Mantle of Elijah on Wotton. She never married. As well as her adult novels and short stories, Wotton wrote several books for children. She also contributed non-fiction to the Cornhill Magazine, and wrote an appreciation of the actor H. B. Irving.

She died in London on 3 March 1927.

Works Word Portraits of Famous Writers. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1887. Edited by Wotton. A Pretty Radical and Other Stories. London: D. Stott, 1890. A Girl Diplomatist. London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. A Nursery Idyll. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892. A Mannerless Monkey. London: A. D. Innes & Co., 1893. Illustrated by Edith Ellison. Day-Books. London: John Lane, 1896. On Music's Wings. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1898. The Little Browns. London : Blackie & Son, Ltd., 1900. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. H. B. Irving: An Appreciation. London: Cassell, 1911.