Author: Marcella Archer
Author: Marcella Archer (1835–1915)
Alternate Name(s): Crewe (married name); Marcellina (pseudonym)
Biography: Marcella Archer was born in 1835 in Aberystwyth, the daughter of clergyman William J. Bellew Archer and his wife Maria. Her father held several posts including in Germany and himself wrote a novel. Archer was educated in England, Germany, and France along with her sisters including Tryphenia Margaret Browne. Archer moved to London where she wrote a few religious pamphlets, translated an Italian novel Love Blinded (1879), and wrote the novel Ireland's True Daughter (1881) under the pseudonym "Marcellina." The following year, she married author and artist Henry Crewe. As a widow in 1899, she applied unsuccessfully to the Royal Literary Fund. Her later years ended sadly as a mental patient in the Hammersmith Infirmary. She died in 1915 in East Ashford, Kent. Note: author identified through the Archer family papers held by the University of Wisconsin.
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References: British Census (1841, 1881, 1891, 1911); RLF (case number 2545)
Fiction Titles:
- Ireland's True Daughter: A Novel. 3 vol. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1881.