Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey
Appearance
Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey | |
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Born | 1851 Gloucestershire, UK |
Died | 1911 |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | British |
Period | Victorian |
Genre | Fiction |
Relatives | Charlotte Mary Yonge, Thomas Hyde Page, Arthur William Crawley Boevey |
Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey (1851-1911) was a British author of Victorian fiction novels. They are mostly out of print.
Biography
[edit]Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey was born in 1851 at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, the youngest daughter of Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 4th Baronet. She is the sister of author and civil servant Arthur William Crawley Boevey and the cousin of famous Victorian author Charlotte Mary Yonge.[1]
In 1888, Crawley-Boevey wrote Dene Forest Sketches (1888), a study about the Forest of Dean where her father was the verderer. She followed this with two novels: the mystical-themed Beyond Cloudland (1888) and the love story Conscience Makes the Martyr (1894)[2]
Works
[edit]Date | Title |
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1888 | Dene Forest Sketches |
1888 | Beyond Cloudland |
1890 | A Love Picture in Three Strokes |
1892 | By the Light of the Nursery Lamp. To Storyland |
1894 | Conscience Makes the Martyr |
References
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