Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey
Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1851 Gloucestershire, England |
| Died | 1911 (aged 59–60) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Relatives | Charlotte Mary Yonge, Thomas Hyde Page, Arthur William Crawley Boevey |
| Writing career | |
| Period | Victorian |
| Genre | Fiction |
Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey (1851-1911) was an English novelist.
Biography
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
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 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
- ↑ The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge[link removed]
- ↑ The Circulating Library-A Database of Victorian Fiction
Categories:
- 1851 births
- 1911 deaths
- 19th-century English women novelists
- 19th-century English novelists
- People from Forest of Dean District
- Crawley-Boevey family
- Writers from Gloucestershire
- Victorian women writers
- Victorian novelists
- 19th-century English non-fiction writers
- English women non-fiction writers
- Daughters of baronets
- English novelist stubs