Favell Lee Mortimer

Born Favell Lee Bevan in London in 1802, she became a British Evangelical author known for educational and religious books for children. She was raised in a prominent family and later married the preacher Thomas Mortimer.

Her most famous book, The Peep of Day (1833), was widely read and helped make her one of the best-known children's religious writers of her time. She also wrote geography, history, and Bible-based works aimed at young readers, presenting the world in a clear, strongly didactic style.

Mortimer died in 1878. Today she is remembered both for her enormous popularity in the Victorian period and for the way her books reveal the values, assumptions, and teaching methods of that era.