Background
Kelly was born 28 January 1875 as Ethel Knight Mollison, in Street John, New Brunswick, Canada. She was the elder daughter of Margaret and William Knight Mollison.
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Ethel Kelly
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She appeared in a number of plays and wrote four books She began her acting career in 1894, appearing in such plays as Cyrano de Bergerac and The Taming of the Shrew. J. C. Williamson brought her to Australia for the play Are You a Mason? in 1903.
Later that year she appeared in Madame Butterfly.
She appeared in The School for Scandal in 1917, and in her own play, Swords and Tea, in 1918. Also in 1918, she appeared in the silent film Cupid Camouflaged, credited as Mistress
T. H. Kelly. Her first book was an account of her travels in India, titled Frivolous Peeps at India and published in 1911.
In 1922, she became editor of the women"s page of Smith"s Weekly. In 1925 she published her first novel, Why the Sphinx Smiles.
lieutenant was followed by Zara in 1927. She wrote a memoir, Twelve Milestones, which was published in 1929.
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Religion
Catholic