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and the sister of novelist

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. Cecilia Trollope was one of seven children of Fanny Trollope and her husband, barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope. In 1839, she married John Tilley, a friend of her brother Anthony who later became Secretary to the

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of the United Kingdom. They had five children. Cecilia Tilley published a single book under the pseudonym "By a Lady", the

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novel ''Chollerton: A Tale of Our Own Times'' (1846). Cecilia Tilley died of

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on 10 April 1849 in Kensington.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tilley, Cecilia Created via preloaddraft 1816 births 1849 deaths British women novelists People from Kensington 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in England