Author: Julia Maria Radcliffe
Author: Julia Maria Radcliffe (1853–1935)
Alternate Name(s): Christel (pseudonym); Raines (maiden name); Grier (second married name)
Biography: Julia Maria Radcliffe was born in 1853 in Newcastle, the daughter of clergyman Charles Alfred Raines, the vicar of St. Peter's in Newcastle. In 1879, she married cotton-spinning manufacturer Frank Radcliffe. Her husband died suddently in 1883 leaving her with three daughters. In her widowhood, she wrote a novel In a Moment of Passion (1886) under the pseudonym "Christel." She follow it up with a second novel Babette Vivian (1893). Radcliffe remarried in 1889 to the clergyman Alfred Grier, the couple had two children, and they lived in York. In the twentieth century, she wrote one more novel published under her legal name which revealed her earlier pseudonym. She died on 30 January 1935 in Bexhill-on-Sea.
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References: Alston Herald (4 October 1879); Bexhill-on-Sea Observer (2 February 1935); Bookseller (17 September 1909); British Census (1861, 1881, 1901, 1911, 1921); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- In a Moment of Passion. 3 vol. London: F. V. White, 1886.
- Babette Vivian: A Novel. 1 vol. London: Digby, Long, 1893.