Author: Eleanor Percy Geary
Author: Eleanor Percy Geary (1841–1922)
Biography: Eleanor Percy Geary was born in 1841 in Clifton, the youngest daughter of estate agent James Geary. From a young age she worked as a teacher, described as a "professor of languages" in the 1861 census, and later she worked as a governess. She made one foray into authorship with the juvenile novel Elsie's Victory (1876). In later life she lived in Christchurch then Bournemouth. She never married and died on 1 January 1922 in Bournemouth.
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References: British Census (1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1911, 1921); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Elsie's Victory. 1 vol. London: Marcus Ward, 1876.