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(1796 or 1806-1874).—
Historical writer, daughter of
Thomas S., of Royden Hall, Suffolk, was ed. by her f.,
and began her literary career with a poem, Worcester Field,
followed by The Seven Ages of Woman and Demetrius. Abandoning
poetry she next produced among others Historical Tales of
Illustrious British Children (1833), The Pilgrims of
Walsingham (1835), Tales and Stories from History
(1836). Her chief works, however, are Lives of the Queens of
England from the Norman Conquest, and Lives of the Queens of
Scotland, and English Princesses, etc. (8 vols., 1850-59),
Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England (1861), and Letters
of Mary Queen of Scots, in some of which she was assisted by her
sister Elizabeth. Though laborious and conscientious she lacked the
judicial faculty, and her style does not rise above mediocrity.
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