author
Sheila Braine
1859–1943
A late-Victorian and early-20th-century English writer, she published children's stories and historical adventures filled with fairy-tale charm and brisk storytelling. Her books include To Tell the King the Sky is Falling, Cynthia's Holiday, and With Rupert the Brave.
1 Audiobook
The golden story book
by L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon, Sheila Braine, May Byron, Evelyn Everett-Green, George Manville Fenn, Lilian Gask, G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, D. H. Parry
About the author
Born in Oxford and legally named Emma Sheila Braine, she published as Sheila E. Braine. Reference sources agree that she was an English writer who died in 1943, though some disagree about whether she was born in 1859 or 1867, so her birth year is not completely certain.
Braine wrote mainly for younger readers. Her known books include To Tell the King the Sky is Falling (1896), Cynthia's Holiday (1896), The Princess of Hearts (1899), and With Rupert the Brave, a historical tale set during the English Civil War. Her work suggests a taste for imaginative adventure, moral energy, and lively storytelling aimed at children and girls' reading audiences.
Although she is not widely remembered today, her books survive in library catalogs, public-domain listings, and rare-book records, showing that she had a place in the busy world of British popular children's publishing around the turn of the 20th century.