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Georgiana Fullerton
1812–1885
Born into an aristocratic political family, she became one of the best-known Roman Catholic novelists in 19th-century England and paired her fiction with serious charitable work. Her life joined literary success, religious conviction, and a practical commitment to education and service.
3 Audiobooks
Ellen Middleton—A Tale
by Georgiana Fullerton
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
by Georgiana Fullerton
Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century
by Georgiana Fullerton
About the author
Lady Georgiana Fullerton was born Georgiana Charlotte Leveson-Gower on September 23, 1812, at Tixall Hall in Staffordshire. She was the youngest daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, later the 1st Earl Granville, and grew up in a prominent political family. In 1833 she married Alexander George Fullerton, an Irish army officer.
She is remembered as an English novelist, biographer, philanthropist, and school founder, and was widely regarded as an important Roman Catholic voice in Victorian literature. After she and her husband entered the Catholic Church in the 1840s, her writing increasingly reflected religious themes and moral questions, while her public life turned more strongly toward charitable and educational work.
Alongside her novels, she supported Catholic causes and helped found schools and religious works of service. She died on January 19, 1885, at Bournemouth, leaving behind a body of fiction and devotional writing shaped by both social experience and deep personal faith.