Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse-Pearse | |
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Born | Mary Mabel Cosgrove 12 May 1873 Cork, Ireland |
Other names | Princess Chan-Toon |
Occupation | Writer |
Known for | novels about Burma |
Mary Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse-Pearse (12 May 1873 – ), also known as Princess Chan-toon, was an Irish writer who married Prince Chan-Toon, the nephew of the King of Burma. She is known for her novels about Burma, particularly A Marriage in Burmah, and for a controversy surrounding the authorship of For Love of the King, a play that she claimed had been written by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde.