Augusta Zelia Fraser

Augusta Zelia Fraser
BornAugusta Zelia Webb
OccupationNovelist and amateur ethnographer
NationalityEnglish
PeriodVictorian era
Years active1890s–1910s
Notable worksA Study in Colour (1894)
Lucilla: An Experiment (1895) (vol. 1; vol. 2)
Livingstone and Newstead (1913)
Spouse
Philip Affleck Fraser
(m. 1889)
RelativesWilliam Frederick Webb (father)

Augusta Zelia Fraser (1857/8 – 11 December 1925),[1][2] born Augusta Zelia Webb, generally publishing pseudonymously as Alice Spinner, was an English-born writer of fiction and amateur ethnography who produced much of her work while living in Jamaica in the late 19th century. She published two novels, one memoir, and a number of short stories.

  1. ^ Slingerland, Jean Harris, ed. (1989). The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900. Vol. 5. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 278. ISBN 0802027199. OCLC 742323738.
  2. ^ Burke, Bernard (1969). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Handed Gentry. Vol. 2 (18th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 220. Retrieved 13 July 2020.