E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

Born in 1880 in Northumberland, Emily Hilda Young published under the name E. H. Young and went on to become a successful English novelist. After her marriage she moved to Bristol, a city that strongly shaped her fiction and inspired the setting of many of her best-known books.

Her novels are remembered for their vivid sense of place, subtle treatment of relationships, and wry, intelligent observation of middle-class life. Alongside her adult fiction, she wrote children's books, and accounts of her life also note her love of mountaineering and her support for the women's suffrage movement.

Though less widely read now than in her own lifetime, she has continued to attract devoted readers, especially for novels such as Miss Mole and The Misses Mallett. She died in 1949.