author
Sheila Braine
1859–1943
A late-Victorian and early-20th-century English writer, she published adventure stories, girls’ fiction, fairy tales, and poetry under the name Sheila E. Braine. Her work ranges from historical tales to imaginative children’s stories, showing a fondness for lively plots and storytelling for younger readers.
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 as Emma Sheila Braine in Oxford, she wrote under the name Sheila E. Braine and was active in Britain around the turn of the 20th century. Sources differ on her birth year, giving either 1859 or 1867, but they agree that she died in 1943.
She began by writing for periodicals and went on to publish fiction and verse. Reference sources describe her as an English poet as well as a novelist, and surviving title records show the variety of her work, including The Turkish Automation, With Rupert the Brave, Cynthia's Holiday, A Young Crusader, and Up the Rainbow Stairs.
Her books suggest a writer comfortable moving between historical adventure and imaginative fiction for children. Although she is not widely known today, bibliographic records and public-domain listings show a body of work that still offers a glimpse of popular storytelling from her era.