Author Information At the Circulating LibraryAuthor: Julia Rattray Waddington (1801–1862) Biography: Julia Rattray Waddington was born in 1801 in London, parentage unknown. The recipient of a small income, she lived in Bath for a number of years before moving to Newton Abbot, Devonshire. She wrote four novels: the first two—Misrepresentations (1838) and Janet (1839)—formed a "Series of Tales on the Passions"; the third The Monk and the Married Man (1840) is an anti-Catholic novel; and the fourth Newstoke Priors (1842) a family romance. Waddington never married and lived for over twenty years with Frances Elizabeth Brickdale (b. 1797). She died in June 1862 in Newton Abbot and Brickdale died a few months later in November. References: British Census (1841, 1851, 1861); Probate Titles:
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