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Lady Augusta Noel
1838–1902
A Victorian novelist from an aristocratic English family, she published fiction that ranged from children’s stories to longer novels. Her surviving works include Effie’s Friends, The Story of Wandering Willie, and Owen Gwynne’s Great Work.
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The story of Wandering Willie
by Lady Augusta Noel
About the author
Born Lady Augusta Keppel in 1838, she later became Lady Augusta Noel and published fiction in the mid-to-late Victorian period. Reference sources identify her as the daughter of George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle, and record that she married Ernest Noel in 1873.
Her books suggest a writer comfortable moving between younger readers and general fiction. Catalog and bibliographic records connect her with titles including Effie’s Friends: or, Chronicles of the Woods and Shore (1865), John Hatherton (1865), The Story of Wandering Willie (1870), and Owen Gwynne’s Great Work (1875).
She died in 1902. Although she is not widely known today, digital libraries and public-domain editions have helped keep parts of her work available to modern readers.