Pseudonym of Sylvia Anne Matheson Schofield. She was born in Balham, London as Sylvia Anne Terry-Smith. She was an author, freelance journalist, and traveller. In 1941, she married Angus Matheson. They divorced in 1950. In 1956, she married Henry Beaumont Schofield, a petroleum engineer. She is the creator of 'Russell Jones', a news photographer.