Flora Annie Steel

Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel, c. 1903
Flora Annie Steel, c. 1903
Born(1847-04-02)2 April 1847
Sudbury, Middlesex, England[1]
Died12 April 1929(1929-04-12) (aged 82)
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England[1]
OccupationWriter
Period19th century
GenreHistory, Fiction, Children's Literature

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian subcontinent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.

  1. ^ a b Brown, Susan; Patricia Clements & Isobel Grundy (2006). "Flora Annie Steel entry: Overview screen". Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge University Press Online. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2014.