[Stevens]. English authoress, born in Borough Green, Kent, England; died in 1876. In 1822 she married Lieutenant-Colonel Crowe of the Royal Army. They made their home in Edinburgh. In 1841 appeared Susan Hopley; in 1843 she published Men and Women. These were followed by Lillie Dawson, her best novel, (1847); Night Side of Nature (1848); Uncle Tom’s Cabin Adapted for Young Persons (1853); Irving Lockwood (1854); Ghosts and Family Legends (1858); Spiritualism and the Age we Live In (1859); The Adventures of a Monkey (1861); and other works. Her mind was morbid and despondent, and at one time she had a violent but brief attack of insanity. She wrote supernatural stories, tragedies, juvenile books and novels.
