Mrs. Newton Crosland

Born Camilla Dufour Toulmin in London in 1812, she became known to readers as Mrs. Newton Crosland. Sources identify her as an English writer whose work ranged across novels, poems, essays, and sketches, and her long career placed her among the busy, versatile literary figures of the Victorian period.

She is remembered not for a single famous title alone, but for the breadth of her writing and for the way she wrote about people, feeling, and literary society. Her published work included fiction and nonfiction, and bibliographic records connect her with books such as Memorable Women: The Story of Their Lives.

She died in 1895. I wasn’t able to confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.