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active approximately 1876-1880 Ruth Lynn
These scarce Victorian stories center on children, kindness, and everyday faith, with a gentle style that suits classic moral fiction. Very little is known about the writer herself, which gives her surviving books an added air of mystery.
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Corrie
by active approximately 1876-1880 Ruth Lynn
About the author
Ruth Lynn is a little-known Victorian author whose life dates have not been confirmed. A specialist database of 19th-century fiction notes that her birth and death dates are unknown and also records Thornley as a married name.
The works currently traceable to her were published in the 1870s and 1880, mainly by the Religious Tract Society in London. Confirmed titles include City Sparrows, and Who Fed Them (1873), Ermyn; or, The Child of St. Elvis (1876), Corrie: A Story for Christmas (1877), and Penfold: A Story of the Flower Mission (1880).
Her fiction appears to have been written for younger readers and family audiences, blending domestic storytelling with religious and charitable themes. Because so little biographical information survives, her books remain the clearest window into her voice: warm, earnest, and shaped by the moral world of late Victorian popular fiction.