Florence Caddy (1837 – 9 July 1923) was an English non-fiction writer from
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le ...
. She wrote the first book on household management to become well known.
Family
She was born in Middlesex (now part of London) in 1837, as Florence Tompson. She married John Turner Caddy in 1857 at
Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury
The Church of Christ the King belongs to Catholic Apostolic Church trustees; it is in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London. It adjoins Dr Williams's Library and is within sight of University College London. The church is used by the Anglican missio ...
in London and had five children: John Francis in 1857, Florence in 1863, Arnold in 1866, Hermione Helena in 1869 and Adrian in 1879. Her husband died in 1902 and she died in 1923 in
Plymouth
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.
Works
Caddy's 1877 ''Household Organisation'' covers most aspects of housekeeping in its 84 pages.
Her 1886 book on
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ...
was described in a review in ''
The Spectator
''The Spectator'' is a weekly British political and cultural news magazine. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving magazine in the world. ''The Spectator'' is politically conservative, and its principal subject a ...
'' as "eminently readable". However, the reviewer notes that she "does not belong to the sceptical school of historians. Believing Jeanne to have been a divinely inspired heroine, she casts no doubt on the reality of her voices and visions."
[16 January 1886, p. 21.]
References
Bibliography
*1877 ''Household Organisation'', Chapman & Hall, London.
*1878 ''Artist and Amateur; or, The Surface of Life'', 3 vols., Chapman & Hall, London.
*1881 ''Lares and Penates; or, The Background of Life'', Chatto & Windus, London.
*1883 ''Adrian Bright: a Novel'', 3 vols., Hurst & Blackett, London.
*1886 ''Footsteps of Jeanne d'Arc: a Pilgrimage'', Hurst & Blackett, London.
*1887 ''Through the Fields with Linnaeus: a Chapter in Swedish History'', 2 vols., Longmans, London.
*1889 ''To Siam and Malaya in the Duke of Sutherland's Yacht "Sans Peur"'', Hurst & Blackett, London. Republished by OUP in 1992
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1837 births
1923 deaths
English women non-fiction writers
English travel writers
British women travel writers