F. F. (Frances Frederica) Montrésor

Born in Walmer, Kent, on September 23, 1862, Frances Frederica Montrésor was a British novelist who published as F. F. Montrésor. She was the daughter of Admiral Frederick Byng Montrésor and Emily Maria Delafield, and she built a long writing career during the late Victorian and Edwardian years.

Her debut novel, Into the Highways and Hedges (1895), became her best-known book, and she went on to write many more novels, including The Alien, Worth While, and The Celestial Surgeon. Her fiction often centered on personal choices, social pressures, and emotional entanglements, making her a recognizable voice in popular British fiction of her time.

Montrésor died on October 17, 1934. Though she is not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, her novels still offer a window into the tastes, values, and storytelling style of turn-of-the-century Britain.