Lily Watson
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Lily Watson (1848 – 1932) was an English Novelist whose best-selling novel The Vicar of Langthwaite was admired by William Ewart Gladstone who wrote the foreword.
She was largely forgotten in the second half of the 20th Century. Interest in her revived when Kate Mosse found that she was her great-grandmother, which inspired her to write Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries.[1]
Biography
Martha Louisa "Lily" Watson was born in 1849 in Taunton, Somerset. Her father was a Baptist minister Samuel Gosnell Green (1822–1905) who subsequently moved to teach classics and mathematics at the Horton Baptist Academy[1]
Works
Her works include[2]:
- The Mountain Path 1888.
- Within Sight of the Snow: A Story of a Swiss Holiday, and A Surrey Idyll 1890.
- In the Days of Mozart: The Story of a Young Musician 1891.
- The Hill of Angels 1892.
- The Vicar of Langthwaite 3 vol. 1893.
- A Fortunate Exile 1896.
- A Child of Genius 1898.
