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Matilda Wrench
d. 1866
A 19th-century British writer with a strong social conscience, she wrote fiction and nonfiction shaped by religious conviction and concern for women’s lives. Her work ranges from moral tales like The Highland Glen to prison reform writing connected with the British Ladies’ Society.
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The Highland glen : or, plenty and famine
by Matilda Wrench
About the author
Matilda Wrench was a British author who died in 1866. Surviving catalog records and library listings link her to both fiction and nonfiction, including The Highland Glen: Or, Plenty and Famine, Charcoal Burners; or, The Grateful Artist, and Visits to Female Prisoners at Home and Abroad.
Her writing suggests a strong interest in moral and social questions. Visits to Female Prisoners at Home and Abroad was prepared for the British Ladies’ Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners, showing her connection to reform-minded religious and philanthropic work.
Some sources also describe her as a translator from German. While biographical details about her life are scarce, the books that remain show a writer engaged with charity, faith, and the hardships faced by others.