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Georgiana M. (Georgiana Marion) Craik

1831–1895

A prolific Victorian novelist from a literary family, she wrote more than thirty novels and was especially known for "Lost and Won". Her fiction helped build her reputation as a popular mid-19th-century English writer.

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Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew

Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew

by Georgiana M. (Georgiana Marion) Craik

About the author

Born in 1831, she was the daughter of the Scottish writer and literary critic George Lillie Craik, which placed her close to books and literary life from the start.

Writing as Georgiana M. Craik, she went on to publish more than thirty novels. Sources repeatedly single out Lost and Won (1859) as her best-known work, and they identify her as Mrs. A. W. May in later references.

She died on November 1, 1895. Reliable image sources located during this search did not provide a clear usable portrait, so no profile image is included.