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Frances Collins (writer)

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Frances Collins (née Dunn; 14 July 1840 - Camberley, Surrey, 17 March 1886) was a British writer and the wife of Mortimer Collins.

Biography

Frances Dunn was born in 1840, and she married the writer Mortimer Collins in 1868.[1] Mortimer Collins was ill and struggling financially when they married, and Frances helped him to manage his finances and co-wrote his last few books with him.[1] Following her husband's death in 1876, Frances Collins published several novels under her own name as well as a memoir of her husband.[2] She also wrote several short pieces for periodicals including Punch (magazine).[3]

Publications

  • (with Mortimer Collins) A Fight With Fortune (1876)[2]
  • Mortimer Collins: His Letters and Friendships (1877)[4]
  • (with Mortimer Collins) You Play Me False (1878)[2]
  • A Broken Lily (1882)[2]
  • The Village Comedy (1883)[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Royal Literary Fund, Application Form, Frances Collins". searcharchives.bl.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  2. ^ a b c d Sutherland, John (2014-10-13). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Routledge. p. 140. ISBN 9781317863335.
  3. ^ Spielmann, M.H. (1895). A History of Punch. London, Paris and Melbourne: Cassell and Company Limited. p. 405.
  4. ^ Collins, Mrs Mortimer (1877). Mortimer Collins, His Letters and Friendships: With Some Account of His Life. S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Mrs Mortimer Collins.
  5. ^ Collins, Mrs Mortimer (1883). The village comedy, by Mortimer and Frances Collins. 1883. Chatto and Windus.