A. L. O. E.

Charlotte Maria Tucker, better known by the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (“A Lady of England”), was born in Barnet, England, on May 8, 1821, and became a remarkably productive writer for both children and adults. She is especially remembered for her religious stories, poems, and allegories, which were widely read in the Victorian period.

After her father's death, she began publishing extensively, and her writing career grew into a major body of work. Her books often combined adventure, instruction, and Christian themes, which helped make them popular with young readers and families.

In 1875, she went to India as a volunteer missionary and spent her later years there, particularly in Amritsar. She died in India on December 2, 1893, and is remembered both as a bestselling religious author and as a woman who devoted much of her later life to missionary service.