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Mrs. Forrester
A prolific Victorian novelist, she wrote under the pen name Mrs. Forrester, creating emotionally charged stories of love, ambition, and social life. Her work includes Diana Carew, Viva, June, and Roy and Viola.
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Diana Carew : or, for a woman's sake
by Mrs. Forrester
About the author
Emily Feake Bridges (1843–1896) was a London-born novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Forrester. She was the only surviving child of solicitor Feake Sanford of Surbiton, Surrey, and began publishing novels after the death of her first husband, John Jerdien, in 1867.
Bridges produced a steady stream of fiction during the Victorian period, including Fair Women, From Olympus to Hades, Diana Carew, Viva, June, I Have Lived and Loved, and The Light of Other Days. Her books were chiefly published by Hurst and Blackett, one of the era’s prominent London fiction houses.
Later in life, she married Colonel Edward Smith Bridges of the Grenadier Guards. She died in 1896 at the age of 53, leaving behind a substantial body of popular nineteenth-century fiction.