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Maud Stepney Rawson

Best known for writing lively historical fiction and a full-length study of Bess of Hardwick, this British author moved with ease between romance and history. Her books show a clear fondness for the past, especially for strong personalities and the social worlds around them.

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Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

by Maud Stepney Rawson

About the author

Born Alice Maud Fife in Pune in 1864 or 1865, she was the daughter of Lieutenant General James George Fife and Katharine Alice Wharton. After marrying William Stepney Rawson in 1891, she wrote under the name Maud Stepney Rawson.

Sources available online describe her as a British writer whose work included around eighteen novels, many of them historical romances. She is also remembered for Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle (1910), a nonfiction study that reflects her interest in English history and notable women of the past.

Some catalog and reference sources differ slightly on details such as her exact birth year, but they agree that she died in 1932. No clearly suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the pages reviewed, so no profile image is included here.