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M. A. (Margaret Anne) Curtois
1855–1932
A Victorian novelist and storyteller whose career stretched for decades, she wrote domestic fiction, short stories, and fairy tales with a careful, character-focused touch. Her work ranges from early novels like My Best Pupil to fantasy-tinged books such as Chronicles of Elfland.
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Jenny: A Village Idyl
by M. A. (Margaret Anne) Curtois
About the author
Born in 1855 in Branston, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Rev. Atwell Curtois and Ann Henrietta Lee-Warner. Reliable bibliographic records identify her as Margaret Ann Curtois, a British writer who published over a long career and died in London in 1932.
Her fiction career began with My Best Pupil in 1883. Over the following decades she produced numerous novels, along with short stories and fairy-tale writing; titles linked with her include The Story of Meg, Leap Year, Tracked, Elf-Knights, The Romance of a Country: A Masque, and In Minden Town.
She seems to have written in a distinctly late-Victorian and Edwardian mode, with an interest in everyday lives as well as more imaginative material. One of her books, Jenny: A Village Idyl, is available through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep at least part of her work in reach for modern readers.