Eleanor Stredder

Eleanor Stredder was a British author of children's and adventure fiction, born in 1835 in Royston, Cambridgeshire. Sources describe her as the daughter of Edward Stredder, an upholsterer, and Mary Abbott, and note that she was one of five siblings.

She wrote across several decades, with early work including The Raven of Redruth (1862). Later, she became especially associated with novels for younger readers set in different parts of the British Empire, including Jack and His Ostrich, Alive in the Jungle, Lost in the Wilds, and Doing and Daring.

Reference sources say she also wrote for periodicals and collaborated with her sisters Sarah and Harriet on Shrouded in Mystery (1901). She died in 1913, and her work now survives largely through library archives and public-domain editions.