Leverson, Ada (1862–1933)

English novelist. Following the publication of articles and sketches, she branched out into fiction. Her six novels, of which the first was The Twelfth Hour (1907) and the last The Bird of Paradise (1914), are amusing, well-characterized studies of marriage; three of them feature the Ottleys, later issued together as The Little Ottleys (1962). She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who called her ‘The Sphinx’.