The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

Ethel M. Dell (1881-1939) was a British writer whose romantic novels and short stories achieved significant popularity in the early 20th century. Born Ethel May Dell in Streatham, a suburb of London, she was the eldest child of a civil servant. Before her career as a writer took off, Dell worked as a volunteer teaching assistant and devoted herself to caring for her family, beginning her foray int...