English author, born in Kentish Town, London. She wrote numerous works, mostly novels, some of which have been very popular; among them, A Bad Beginning, her first work, published anonymously in 1862; Patty (1871); My Story (1874); Through Normandy and Through Brittany, travels illustrated by her husband, Thomas R. Macquoid (1877); Little Fifine, and Other Tales (1881); At the Red Glove (1885); Appledore Farm (1895); and The Story of Lois (1898).
