Florence Montgomery

Born in 1843 and dying in 1923, Florence Montgomery was an English novelist and children's writer. She is most closely associated with Misunderstood (1869), the book that made her name and remained her best-known work.

Montgomery wrote in a distinctly Victorian mode: emotional, morally serious, and often set among well-to-do families and social circles. Alongside books for younger readers, she also published fiction for adults, building a career that stretched across several decades.

Her reputation today rests mainly on Misunderstood, a novel that continued to attract readers long after its first publication. Contemporary reference sources also note that the book was admired by figures including Lewis Carroll and George du Maurier, and later remembered by Vladimir Nabokov from childhood.