author
M. A. (Margaret Anne) Curtois
1855–1932
A Victorian novelist and storyteller with a long, steady career, she wrote domestic fiction, short stories, and fairy tales with equal ease. Her books stretch from the 1880s into the 1920s, suggesting a writer who kept returning to ordinary lives and imagined worlds over many decades.
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Jenny: A Village Idyl
by M. A. (Margaret Anne) Curtois
About the author
Margaret Anne Curtois was a British writer born in 1855 in Branston, Lincolnshire. Reliable bibliographic and reference sources identify her as the daughter of Rev. Atwell Curtois and Ann Henrietta Lee-Warner, and show that she published under the name M. A. Curtois.
Her career began with My Best Pupil in 1883 and continued for roughly fifty years. She wrote more than a dozen novels, along with short fiction and fairy-tale books, including Chronicles of Elfland; surviving records of her books also include titles such as The Story of Meg, Leap Year, and The Romance of a Country.
Sources consulted for this overview agree that she never married and died in London in 1932. A suitable verified portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.