Frances Collins (née Dunn; 14 July 1840 -

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, Surrey, 17 March 1886) was a British writer and the wife of

Mortimer Collins Edward James Mortimer Collins (29 June 1827 – 28 July 1876) was an English novelist, journalist and poet. Some of his lyrics, with their "light grace, their sparkling wit and their airy philosophy", were described in the 1911 ''Encyclopædia B ...

Biography

Frances Dunn was born in 1840. She married the writer Mortimer Collins in 1868. Mortimer Collins was ill and struggling financially when the couple married, and Frances helped him to manage his finances and co-wrote his last few books with him. Following her husband's death in 1876, Frances Collins published several novels under her own name as well as a memoir of her husband. She also wrote several short pieces for periodicals such as ''

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Publications

* (with Mortimer Collins) ''A Fight With Fortune'' (1876) * ''Mortimer Collins: His Letters and Friendships'' (1877) * (with Mortimer Collins) ''You Play Me False'' (1878) * ''A Broken Lily'' (1882) * ''The Village Comedy'' (1883)

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1840 births British women writers 19th-century British writers 1886 deaths 19th-century women writers {{UK-writer-stub