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Author: Joanna Bryan Lukin

Author: Joanna Bryan Lukin (1797–1889)

Alternate Name(s): Hugo (maiden name); I. B. L. (alternate name)

Biography: Joanna Bryan Lukin was born on 25 December 1797, in Great Canford, Dorset, the daughter of civil servant Thomas Byrdall Hugo and his wife Paulina McKenzie. In 1824, she married landowner James William Lukin and the couple had six children. When her husband died in 1856, Lukin turned to fiction beginning with the anonymous Daunton Manor House (1860) (advertisements would go on to reveal her identity). Strangely, one of her later books is attributed to "I. B. L." and her last one to "J. B. L." She never remarried and died on 24 September 1889 in Crofton, Hampshire.

Author Tags:

• Early Victorians

References: British Census (1851, 1871, 1881)

Fiction Titles:

1. Daunton Manor House: A Novel.  2 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860.
2. Lotty Wilson: or, Good Prevails.  1 vol.  London: Whibley and Co., 1865.
3. My Dear Old Home, and The Sisters.  1 vol.  London: Elliot Stock, 1876.
4. The Parsonage Well: A Tale of Real Life.  1 vol.  London: Remington, 1877.