Mary Jane Richards

Mary Jane Richards (born 1843; died in November 1904), born Blair, was a British theatre actress and the mother of the writer Edgar Wallace.

Biography Little information is available about the biography of Mary Jane Richards. She was born as Marie Jane Blair in Bradford, United Kingdom, and got the nickname "Polly". She married a sailor who has been handed down as Captain Richards and became pregnant by him before he went to sea again and never returned. Her daughter Josephine Richards emerged from this relationship.

Literatur Margaret Lane: Edgar Wallace: the biography of a phenomenon, 1938 Edgar Wallace : Das Leben eines Phänomens (Übersetzung von Wilm Wolfgang Elwenspoek), Krüger, Hamburg 1966 Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon. Leben, Werk, Filme. Es ist unmöglich, von Edgar Wallace nicht gefesselt zu sein! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004.