Amy Le Feuvre

Amy Le Feuvre (1861–1929), also known as Amelia Sophia Le Feuvre, was an English writer of evangelical Christian children’s fiction. Born in Blackheath, London, she was educated by a governess and devoted her life to writing stories shaped by Biblical principles and everyday family experience.

Her first book, Eric’s Good News, appeared in 1894, and she went on to write more than 65 books, including Teddy’s Button, Odd, A Puzzling Pair, and On the Edge of a Moor. She also contributed to magazines such as Sunday at Home and The Quiver, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Mary Thurston Dodge.

Le Feuvre’s stories are especially known for lively, naughty, or misunderstood children whose adventures lead to lessons in honesty, compassion, self-discipline, and faith. She died in Exeter, Devon, on April 29, 1929; her final novel, A Strange Courtship, was published posthumously in 1931.