Elizabeth Anna Hart

Also wrote under the name Fanny Wheeler Hart.

Born in London in 1822, Elizabeth Anna Hart was the daughter of a clergyman, critic and poet. Her aunt was Lewis Carroll's grandmother. She married an officer in the Indian Army, but had no children. She is perhaps best remembered for the children's story, The Runaway (1872), and for the adult novel Mrs Jerningham's Journal. She died in 1890.

From: Persephone Books.