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Georgiana M. (Georgiana Marion) Craik
1831–1895
A Victorian novelist with a gift for warm, observant stories, she wrote for both adults and younger readers and built a steady literary career across the second half of the 19th century.
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Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew
by Georgiana M. (Georgiana Marion) Craik
About the author
Born in Old Brompton, London, in April 1831, Georgiana Marion Craik was the daughter of writer and scholar George Lillie Craik. She began contributing to periodicals early in her career, including Household Words, and published her first novel, Riverston, in 1857.
She went on to write numerous novels, with Lost and Won often noted as one of her best-known works. Her fiction was largely aimed at young women, and she also wrote books for children, earning a place among the many busy, versatile authors who helped shape Victorian popular reading.
Later in life she married Allan Walter May and was sometimes known as Mrs. A. W. May. She died on November 1, 1895. Her work still appeals to readers interested in 19th-century domestic fiction and the broad world of Victorian publishing.