Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey

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Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey
Born1851
Gloucestershire, England
Died1911
OccupationAuthor
NationalityEnglish
PeriodVictorian
Genre Fiction
Relatives Charlotte Mary Yonge, Thomas Hyde Page, Arthur William Crawley Boevey

Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey (1851-1911) was an English novelist.

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Biography

Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey was born in 1851 at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, the youngest daughter of Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 4th Baronet. She is the sister of author and civil servant Arthur William Crawley Boevey and the cousin of famous Victorian author Charlotte Mary Yonge. [1]

In 1888, Crawley-Boevey wrote Dene Forest Sketches (1888), a study about the Forest of Dean where her father was the verderer. She followed this with two novels: the mystical-themed Beyond Cloudland (1888) and the love story Conscience Makes the Martyr (1894) [2]

Works

DateTitle
1888Dene Forest Sketches
1888Beyond Cloudland
1890A Love Picture in Three Strokes
1892By the Light of the Nursery Lamp. To Storyland
1894Conscience Makes the Martyr

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