Edith Marie Dulce Carman (1883 — 1970)[1] was a New Zealand romance writer who published over twenty novels.[1] She was a cousin of the Canadian poet Bliss Carman.[2]
Carman was born in Norwich, England, and emigrated to Feilding in New Zealand in 1892.[1] In 1906 she was one of twenty-one writers commended in the Lyceum Club's colonial literary competition.[3] In December 1911 she married David Drummond,[4] after which she moved to Dannevirke.[1] She published short stories in New Zealand newspapers and magazines, before her first novel, The Broad Stairway, was published in 1925.[5] She published her works under her maiden name.[6] She continued to publish short fiction and serialised novels in New Zealand newspapers,[7]
She moved to Hastings for health reasons in 1932 after a severe illness which threatened her eyesight.[8]
In 1948 her second novel, Neath the Maori Moon was published, and she continued to write despite ongoing health issues,[9] publishing a further 26 novels between 1949 and 1967.[1] In 1962 she was elected an honorary founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]