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Mary Frances Outram
An early 20th-century British writer from the Outram family, she left behind fiction and historical writing that now survives mainly through rare editions and digital archives. Her work ranges from novels such as Tarnished Silver to family and historical subjects, giving modern listeners a glimpse of another era's storytelling.
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Tarnished Silver
by Mary Frances Outram
About the author
Mary Frances Outram was a British writer born in 1862 and died on May 31, 1935. Available reference sources identify her as a daughter of Sir Francis Boyd Outram, 2nd Baronet, and note that she never married.
Surviving bibliographic records show that she wrote both fiction and nonfiction. Her best-known work today is Tarnished Silver, which has been preserved through Project Gutenberg, and books attributed to her also include Branan the Pict, The Story of a Log House, The Mystery of the Ash Tree, and Margaret Outram, 1778-1863, Mother of the Bayard of India.
Although she is not widely remembered now, the record of her books suggests a writer interested in character, history, and moral storytelling. For readers of older literature, her work offers the atmosphere and values of late Victorian and early 20th-century popular writing.