Evelyn May Clowes, known by the pseudonym Elinor Mordaunt (7 May 1872 – 25 June 1942), was an English author, writer and traveler. Her writings combine travel reportage with personal reflection, often foregrounding encounters with colonial societies, cultural difference, and female independence within male-dominated imperial spaces. Mordaunt’s work challenges conventional gender roles of her time, presenting a self-fashioned persona of autonomy and transgression.