Anna Drury

One of FMP 's close friends was Charlotte Yonge , who helped her develop a writing career, and whose earliest surviving letter to her is dated April 1861. For a while Peard was one of...

In addition to her relationship with Charlotte Yonge , CC had a productive friendship with Mary Bramston . The move to Torquay made her one of a group of women writers in the area, all...

FT had moved to 20 York Street, Portman Square, London in September 1838, where she was visited by a young Anna Drury who describes her time spent with FT as characterised by an unlimited allowance...

As well as her close friendship with Peard , living at Torquay made MR one of a circle of women writers which included Anna Drury , Christabel Coleridge , and (offstage, as it were) Charlotte Yonge

FT 's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third. However, her writing brought her into a supportive network...