Ellen Mary Robin (15 January 1861 – 21 September 1938) was a British–Jèrriais writer who published under the name E. Gallienne Robin.
Robin was born on 15 January 1861, on Guernsey, the daughter of Nicolas Robin, a grocer, and Rachel Elizabeth Gallienne Robin. She worked as a governess on Guernsey and a teacher in Norwich, Torquay, Dorking, and Kent in England.
Robin's fiction was set in the Channel Islands or featured people from the islands. Her Christine, A Guernsey Girl (1912) is about a woman who runs an eating house and engages in blackmail.
E. Gallienne Robin died on 21 September 1938 in King's Lynn.
Bibliography
At the Leap of San Juan: A Sark Story. 1 vol. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1898. Jeanette of Jersey. 1 vol. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1900. The Haunted House at Pleinmont. 1907. Where Deep Seas Moan. Guernsey: Frederick Clarke, 1907. Jacquine of the Hut: A Sark Story. 1911. Reprinted as Jacquine of the Hut: A Romance of the Channel Islands. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Christine, A Guernsey Girl. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912. Luce: The Story of a Mother. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912. Perilous Seas. London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1914. Golden Lights. London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1915. Dreaming Spires and Windswept Crags. London: Burns Oates, 1922. Philippe: a Story of the Channel Islands. 1934. J. T. Bigwood Ltd., Jersey; A Sark Girl (n.d.) A Fair Maid of Sark (n.d.)
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