Cynthia Stockley

Cynthia Stockley

Cynthia Stockley (1873-1936), born Lillian Julian Webb, was a South African-Rhodesian novelist, journalist, and actress. She was born in Orange Free State in Southern Africa. Her parents were Irish and English, and she moved to England where she later died. She is the author of The Claw which was re-adapted for screen by Winnifred Reeve and released in 1927. The Claw was previously turned into a film in 1918. Six of her books were turned into films: Poppy (1917), The Claw (1918), Wild Honey (1922), Ponjola (1923), and The Claw (1927).

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Joey Takeda is the Technical Director of The Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Developer at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL). He is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of British Columbia where he specialized in Indigenous and diasporic literature, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.
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