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Mary Frances Outram
An early 20th-century British novelist and biographer, she wrote fiction as well as historical and religious works. Her surviving books suggest a versatile writer with interests that ranged from family history to adventure and moral fiction.
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Tarnished Silver
by Mary Frances Outram
About the author
Born in 1862 and deceased in 1935, Mary Frances Outram was a British writer from the Outram family; available records identify her as the daughter of Sir Francis Boyd Outram, 2nd Baronet, and Jane Anne Davidson. She published a mix of novels and nonfiction, including Tarnished Silver and Margaret Outram, 1778–1863, Mother of the Bayard of India.
Catalog and reference sources also connect her with other works such as The Story of a Log House, Branan the Pict, and In the Van of the Vikings, showing a range that included fiction, historical writing, and religious or juvenile literature. That variety gives her bibliography a distinctly wide sweep for a writer now better known through library and archive records than through a large modern readership.
Biographical sources further note a long personal relationship with the archaeologist and writer Nina Frances Layard, with whom she lived for many years. Although detailed information about her life is limited online, the record that remains points to a quiet but productive literary career in Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.