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Alan St. Aubyn
A prolific late-Victorian novelist writing under a masculine pen name, this British author became especially known for stories set in and around Cambridge college life. Her fiction blends academic settings, social observation, and the easy narrative charm of popular nineteenth-century storytelling.
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The master of St. Benedict's, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Alan St. Aubyn
The master of St. Benedict's, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Alan St. Aubyn
About the author
Alan St. Aubyn was the pen name of Frances L. Marshall, née Bridges, a British author who lived from 1839 to 1920. Reference sources identify her as a notably productive novelist, and many of her books are associated with Cambridge colleges and university life.
Oxford Reference notes that she was born in Surrey, educated in Essex and Cambridge, and was the daughter of George Bramstone Bridges, a solicitor and playwright. The same source says she worked as a journalist before turning, later in life, to fiction.
Her bibliography is extensive, with novels including A Fellow of Trinity, The Junior Dean, The Master of St. Benedict's, and Orchard Damerel. If you enjoy rediscovering overlooked Victorian writers, she offers a window into the period's popular fiction as well as its fascination with class, education, and social manners.