Elliot, Frances, 1820-1898
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- Wilkie Collins Society, via WWW, 26 January 2017(Frances Dickinson: Friend of Wilkie Collins, by Catherine Peters: born Frances Dickinson on 6 March 1820; wrote articles for the Art Journal using pseudonym Florentia; wrote novels, travel books, popular history; acted in plays with Collins & Charles Dickens; married a Scottish officer, Lieutenant John-Edward Geils; after divorce called herself Mrs Dickinson; married the Very Reverend Gilbert Elliot, Dean of Bristol; died 26 October 1898 in Siena, Italy)
- Diary of an idle woman in Italy, 191-?:t.p. (Frances Elliot)
- BL RS&CD, 26 Feb. 1998(born 1820, died 1898)
- Old court life in Spain, 192-?:t.p. (Frances Minto Elliot)
- Old court life in France, 1893:t.p. (Mrs. F. M. Elliot)
Wikipedia description:
Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898) was a prolific English writer, primarily of non-fiction works on the social history of Italy, Spain, and France and travelogues. She also wrote three novels and published art criticism and gossipy, sometimes scandalous, sketches for The Art Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, and The New Monthly Magazine, often under the pseudonym, "Florentia". Largely forgotten now, she was very popular in her day, with multiple re-printings of her books in both Europe and the United States. Elliot had a wide circle of literary friends including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins. Collins dedicated his 1872 novel, Poor Miss Finch, to her, and much of the content in Marian Holcolmbe's conversations in The Woman in White is said to be based on her.
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