Anne Beale (1816 – 17 April 1900) was a popular English novelist and poet based in Wales. Her poetry, novels and stories appeared in print for over 50 years in her lifetime: "an unusually long career as an author".[1] She was born and educated in Somerset and started a career as a governess. In 1841, she settled in Carmarthenshire. She started writing to supplement her teaching income, but she later earned enough to write full time.
- ^ Jane Aaron, Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (University of Wales Press 2010), pp. 123–124, ISBN 9780708322871