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Florence Caddy
1837–1923
A Victorian writer with a practical streak, she became known for bringing household management and domestic life into print in a way that reached a wide audience. Her work sits at the crossroads of everyday history, women's education, and 19th-century advice writing.
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Household Organization
by Florence Caddy
About the author
Born Florence Tompson in Middlesex in 1837, she was an English writer who published both nonfiction and fiction. She married John Turner Caddy in 1857, and later wrote under the name Florence Caddy.
She is best remembered for nonfiction about domestic life and household management, and is often noted for writing one of the first books on household management to become widely known. Her surviving bibliography also shows that she wrote novels, including Artist and Amateur (1878) and Adrian Bright (1883), which suggests a wider literary range than her reputation alone might imply.
Florence Caddy was widowed in 1902 and died in Plymouth on July 9, 1923. Even now, her name is most closely linked with the practical, everyday side of Victorian writing: books that tried to turn the running of a home into useful knowledge worth sharing.