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Cecilia Tilley

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Cecilia Tilley
portrait by Auguste Hervieu
Born1816 Edit this on Wikidata
Died4 April 1849 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 32–33)
Kensington Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationNovelist Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)John Tilley Edit this on Wikidata
Children5
Parent(s)
FamilyAnthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope Edit this on Wikidata

Cecilia Frances Trollope Tilley (1816 – 10 April 1849[1]) was a British novelist. She was the daughter of novelist Fanny Trollope and the sister of novelist Anthony Trollope.

Cecilia Trollope was one of seven children of Fanny Trollope and her husband, barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope. In 1839, she married John Tilley, a friend of her brother Anthony who later became Secretary to the General Post Office of the United Kingdom. They had five children.[2][3]

Cecilia Tilley published a single book under the pseudonym "By a Lady", the high church novel Chollerton: A Tale of Our Own Times (1846).[2][3]

Cecilia Tilley died of tuberculosis on 10 April 1849[4] in Kensington.[2][3][5]

References

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  1. ^ Trollope, Frances Eleanor (1895). Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. Richard Bentley. p. vol. 2, p.144.
  2. ^ a b c Sutherland, John (1989). The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 637. ISBN 978-0-8047-1528-7. LCCN 88061462. OCLC 231183349. OL 2064970M. Retrieved 6 March 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ a b c Basset, Troy J. "Author: Cecilia Frances Tilley". At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  4. ^ Trollope, Frances Eleanor (1895). Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. Richard Bentley. p. vol. 2, p.144.
  5. ^ "Deaths". Saint James's Chronicle. 7 April 1849. Retrieved 31 July 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.