author
Florence Wilford
b. 1836
A once-popular Victorian novelist and children's writer, she published dozens of books but later slipped from view. Her stories ranged from domestic fiction to holiday tales, offering a lively glimpse of 19th-century popular reading.
1 Audiobook
Holiday Tales
by Florence Wilford
About the author
Born on February 29, 1836, in Woolwich, Kent, Florence Wilford was the daughter of Major-General Edmund Neal Wilford and Jane Drew Wilford. Modern reference sources describe her as a Victorian writer who produced around 20 novels along with short story collections during her lifetime.
Wilford wrote for both adults and younger readers. Surviving records connect her with titles such as An Author's Children, Nigel Bartram's Ideal, The Master of Churchill Abbotts and His Little Friends, and Holiday Tales, showing a career that moved between domestic fiction and children's literature.
Although little is widely remembered about her today, bibliographic and literary databases show that she remained an active published author through the second half of the 19th century. She died in 1897, leaving behind a body of work that reflects the tastes and storytelling styles of the Victorian period.