author
F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
b. 1875
Best known for popular fiction set in South Africa, this prolific early 20th-century novelist wrote stories full of romance, tension, and colonial-era drama. Her books were widely read in their day and ranged from domestic fiction to unusual speculative ideas.
7 Audiobooks
The Shadow of the Past
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
Grit Lawless
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
Imprudence
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
The Triumph of Jill
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
Coelebs: The Love Story of a Bachelor
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
The Bigamist
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
The Stronger Influence
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
About the author
Florence Ethel Mills Young, who wrote as F. E. Mills Young, was born in 1875 and became an English writer of popular fiction. She published many novels in the early decades of the 20th century, and her work was especially associated with stories set in South Africa.
Much of her fiction drew on colonial life and the experiences of English settlers, blending romance with social conflict and melodrama. She was a notably productive author, and reference sources remember her both for mainstream popular novels and for The War of the Sexes (1905), a curious speculative work that still gets attention today.
She died on November 6, 1945. Although she is not widely known now, her novels offer a window into the tastes, anxieties, and settings that shaped popular reading in her era.