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H. Musgrave

A little-known Victorian novelist and playwright who published under the names H. Musgrave and Mrs. H. Musgrave, she left behind a small cluster of late-19th-century fiction that still surfaces in digital libraries today.

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A Little Hero

A Little Hero

by H. Musgrave

About the author

Research sources identify H. Musgrave as a pseudonym of Marriette Beadum. Her life dates have not been traced, so very little is known about her personal background.

What can be confirmed is her published work. Victorian fiction records connect her with the novels Astraea: A Modern Romance (1884), Illusions (1887), A Little Hero (1887), In Cloudland (1888), and Miriam (1888). Project Gutenberg also lists J. Harriette Beadon, Mrs. as an alias connected with H. Musgrave, which supports the link between these names.

She also appears in theater history as Mrs. H. Musgrave, credited with the farce-comedy Our Flat, first produced in 1889. Even though the biographical details are scarce, her surviving books and stage work suggest a writer active in the lively popular fiction and entertainment world of the late Victorian period.