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An English novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in 1827. She is the author of several graceful and readable stories, the best known being: "Days of Yore" (1864); "Citoyenne Jacqueline" (1865); "Noblesse Oblige" (1869); "French Janet"; "Blachall Ghosts". Of her miscellaneous works, designed chiefly for juvenile readers, may be noticed: "Modern Painters" (1873); "Children of a Hundred Years Ago" (1876); "Jane Austen and her Works" (1880); "Marie Antoinette: the Woman and the Queen" (1883); "Three Men of Mark"; "The Machinations of Janet".