Eleanor Stredder

Eleanor Stredder was a British author born in 1835 in Royston, Cambridgeshire. Reference sources about her life agree that she was the daughter of Edward Stredder, an upholsterer, and Mary Abbott, and that she came from a family of siblings that included another writer, Sarah Stredder.

Records summarized by literary and library sources suggest that she was listed as an upholsterer in early adulthood and later as an "authoress," which gives a small but vivid glimpse of her working life. She is chiefly remembered for fiction for younger readers, especially adventure stories set in different parts of the world, including Doing and Daring: A New Zealand Story, Lost in the Wilds, Alive in the Jungle, and Jack and His Ostrich.

She died in 1913. While detailed personal information seems limited, her work remains easy to find through projects like Wikisource and Project Gutenberg, where her stories still speak to readers interested in classic nineteenth-century juvenile fiction.