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Lucy Phillimore

Best known for a lively early biography of Sir Christopher Wren, this English writer brought careful research and a strong sense of story to historical subjects. Her work has remained in circulation for readers curious about architecture, family history, and Victorian-era nonfiction.

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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.

Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.

by Lucy Phillimore

About the author

Lucy Phillimore was an English author associated with the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is best known for Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times, a substantial historical work first published in the 1880s and still preserved in major digital libraries.

Available catalog and archival records suggest she was born in 1850 and died in 1931. Those same records connect her with the Phillimore family and show that her writing has continued to interest later readers through reprints, library collections, and public-domain editions.

Because reliable biographical information about her is fairly limited online, the safest picture is of a serious historical writer whose reputation rests chiefly on her work about Wren. Readers who enjoy older narrative history will likely find in her books a mix of biographical detail, archival curiosity, and Victorian prose.