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Mrs. Coulson Kernahan
1857–1941
A prolific British novelist of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, she wrote romantic and domestic fiction under more than one name. Readers may know her best as Jeanie Gwynne Bettany, or as Mrs. Coulson Kernahan after her second marriage.
1 Audiobook
The Thirteenth Man
by Mrs. Coulson Kernahan
About the author
Born Jeanie Gwynne Bettany on January 25, 1857, she was a British novelist who also published as Mrs. Coulson Kernahan. She married scientist and writer George Thomas Bettany before 1881, and after his death married the novelist Coulson Kernahan in 1892.
Her fiction appeared across the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and she became associated with traditional Edwardian romance. She wrote novels, short stories, poems, and at least one children's work, building a steady literary career that continued for decades.
She died on February 16, 1941. Although not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, her work still survives through library catalogs, reprints, and audiobook and public-domain archives.