E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

Born in 1880 in Northumberland, she published as E. H. Young and became known as an English novelist, children's writer, and mountaineer. Sources agree that she supported women's suffrage, and her work is often associated with closely observed middle-class life and the social pressures surrounding women.

She married solicitor John Arthur Herbert Daniell in 1902 and later lived in Bristol, a city that informed the setting of much of her fiction. During the First World War she worked outside the home, and after her husband's death in 1917 she continued writing, building a reputation that was strong in her own lifetime even if she became less widely remembered later.

Young died in 1949. Today she is still valued by readers who enjoy character-driven fiction, subtle humor, and novels that pay close attention to the complicated rules of everyday life.