author
Sophia Kelly
b. 1815
A Victorian writer from a literary family, she worked closely with her mother, the popular children’s author Mary Martha Sherwood, before publishing fiction of her own. Her books range from stories for young readers to historical and religious novels.
1 Audiobook
Brotherly Love Shewing That as Merely Human It May Not Always Be Depended Upon
by Mary Martha Sherwood, Sophia Kelly
About the author
Born in India in 1815, Sophia Kelly was the youngest child of Captain Henry Sherwood and novelist Mary Martha Sherwood. The family returned to England when she was still an infant, and she grew up in Worcester.
As a teenager, she began helping her mother with children’s books and novels, then went on to write independently. Records of her work show fiction for younger readers as well as historical and religious-themed novels, and she also edited a memoir of her mother.
She married physician Robert I. N. Streeten in 1836 and, after his death, married physician Hubert Edmund Charles Kelly in 1851. She died in London on March 12, 1899.