Author: Alfred Ellis
Author: Alfred Ellis (1808–1883)
Alternate Name(s): Homo (pseudonym)
Biography: Alfred Ellis was born in 1808 in Faversham, Kent, the son of shopkeeper William Ellis and his wife Anne. His early life cannot be traced. By the 1850s, he was married and living in Kensington where he owned several properties. He found the time to write a single book Margaret Fussell's Pupil Teachership (1864) under the pseudonym "Homo" which a local printer published on his behalf. Ellis lived in the same house for the next thirty years and died on 26 July 1883 in Kensington leaving several adult children.
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References: British Census (1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881); Morning Advertiser (1 August 1883); Oxford University and City Herald (3 December 1864)
Fiction Titles:
- Margaret Fussell's Pupil Teachership: A Parochial Tale of the Nineteenth Century. 1 vol. Kensington: James Wakeham, 1864.