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Ann Fraser Tytler
1783–1857
A Scottish novelist from a notably literary family, she is best remembered for Leila, a shipwreck adventure that found many young readers in Britain and America. Her stories mix suspense, home life, and moral growth in a way that feels both earnest and engaging.
2 Audiobooks
Leila at Home a continuation of Leila in England
by Ann Fraser Tytler
Common Sense for Housemaids
by Ann Fraser Tytler
About the author
Born around 1783, she was the daughter of historian and judge Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, and the sister of historian Patrick Fraser Tytler. Sources consistently describe her as a Scottish novelist, and her work grew out of a family deeply connected to writing and scholarship.
She is best known for Leila (1839), a story about a shipwrecked girl that became her signature success. Later sources also point to its continuations, Leila in England and Leila at Home, and note that these books went through numerous editions in both Britain and America.
Ann Fraser Tytler died on September 3, 1857. Though she is not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, her fiction clearly had a strong place in 19th-century reading for younger audiences, especially in stories that paired adventure with character and family feeling.