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Annie G. (Annie Gregg) Savigny

d. 1901

Best remembered for lively late-Victorian fiction set in Canada, she also had strikingly wide interests, from astronomy to animal welfare. Her work offers a glimpse of Toronto literary life in the late 1800s.

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About the author

Annie Gregg Savigny, née Ryan, was a 19th-century Canadian novelist who is thought to have been born in England around 1838 and died in 1901. She is associated most closely with Toronto, where her fiction found readers and where her name appears on several surviving editions and library records.

She is known for novels including A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact) and A Heart-Song of To-day. Sources also describe her as an amateur astronomer and an advocate of animal welfare, suggesting a writer whose interests reached well beyond fiction.

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