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Lady Duffus Hardy
d. 1891
A Victorian novelist and travel writer, she wrote fiction and travel books that carried readers from English society into wider worlds. Publishing at times under the name Addlestone Hill, she built a steady literary career in the nineteenth century.
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Down South
by Lady Duffus Hardy
About the author
Born Mary Anne MacDowell, she became known as Lady Duffus Hardy after marrying the archivist Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy. She was an English novelist and travel writer, and some of her novels were published under the pseudonym Addlestone Hill.
Her work ranged across fiction and travel writing, showing an interest in both social life and places beyond Britain. Among the books linked with her today are novels as well as travel accounts inspired by journeys in the United States.
She died in 1891, but her writing still offers a lively glimpse of Victorian reading tastes and the literary world around her. She is also remembered as the mother of novelist Iza Duffus Hardy, which places her within a family closely connected to nineteenth-century letters.