Evelyn Everett-Green
Born in 1856, Evelyn Everett-Green was the daughter of noted Victorian historian Mary Anne Everett Green, and her husband, artist George Pycock Green. She was educated at home when young, before attending Bedford College (1872-73), during which time she wrote her first novel, and the Royal Academy of Music. Her plans to keep house for her brother in India were forestalled by his death in 1876, and she turned to social service, nursing, and Sunday School teaching.
Everett-Green's first novel to be published, Tom Tempest's Victory, appeared in 1880, followed by more than 300 other books over the next fifty years, ranging from stories for young girls, to romantic fiction for older readers. She moved from London to Albury, Surrey in 1883, settin
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Alternate Name(s): F. M. S. (pseudonym); Owen (married name); BTAO "Harry's Battles"
Biography: Frances Mary Synge was born on 16 April 1842 in County Wicklow, Ireland, the youngest child of John Synge. From a young age, she wrote fiction for S. P. C. K. and other publishers under her initials beginning with Willy's Lesson (1860). In 1870, she married the Rev. James Albert Owen, the headmaster of Cheltenham College. In later life, Synge wrote books on George Washington and John Keats. She died suddenly on 19 June 1883 in Cheltenham. Her entry in Boase neglects to list her fiction, but several obituaries note her young adult fiction.