Gladys Skelton
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Gladys Skelton (6 September 1885 – 29 September 1975) was an Australian and United Kingdom poet, novelist and playwright who wrote using the pseudonym John Presland.
Gladys Skelton was born Gladys Williams in Melbourne in 1885.[1]
Career
Skelton gained history honours at Girton College, Cambridge University and was a university lecturer in English literature and lecturer in history and economics.[2][3] She was one of a group of women writers who used a male pseudonym.[3] In 1928, after a charge by Lord Birkenhead that women writers were inferior, she wrote in their defence and of her use of a pseudonym.[4]
