author
F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
b. 1875
A prolific early-20th-century novelist, this English writer built her stories around romance, adventure, and the lives of British settlers in southern Africa. Her books were widely read in their day and often drew on the places and tensions of South African life.
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
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
Imprudence
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
The Triumph of Jill
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
The Stronger Influence
by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
About the author
Born in Twickenham in 1875, Florence Ethel Mills Young wrote under the name F. E. Mills Young and became a popular author of fiction in the early 1900s. Reliable reference sources describe her as an English novelist whose work was especially known for romance and popular fiction.
She wrote more than 50 novels between the early 1900s and 1941. Many of her early books were set in southern Africa and focused on English communities there, giving her fiction a strong sense of place as well as a connection to the politics and social life of the region.
Young died on November 6, 1945, in Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town. Although she is less widely known today than she was in her own time, her large body of work still offers a glimpse into the tastes of popular fiction readers in the first half of the 20th century.