author
Lizzie A. Freeth
A little-known writer from Guernsey, she is remembered for fiction rooted in the island’s landscape, legend, and history. Her surviving work has the feel of local storytelling shaped into Victorian-era romance and drama.
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Legend of Moulin Huet
by Lizzie A. Freeth
About the author
Lizzie A. Freeth is a scarce figure in the historical record, but the works available online show that she was active in Guernsey in the early 1870s. Her novel Legend of Moulin Huet was published in Guernsey in 1872, and the text presents her as the author of The Adventures of Carl Skinflint Among the Fairies as well.
Her best-known surviving book, Legend of Moulin Huet, is set in Guernsey during the Cromwell era and draws on the island’s scenery and folklore. The setting and original publication details strongly connect her writing to Guernsey, and the novel is still the main reason readers encounter her name today.
Freeth also appears as the editor of Three Months of My Life: A Diary of the Late J. F. Foster, published in 1873. Beyond these book records, biographical details about her life are hard to confirm, so she remains an intriguing, partly hidden literary presence from the Channel Islands.