Author: Juanita Carrington
Author: Juanita Carrington (1818–1910)
Alternate Name(s): Lyall (maiden name)
Biography: Juanita Carrington was born on 3 November 1818 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the daughter of naval officer Hazeldine Lyall and his wife Sophia Purvis. Her father died when she was young and she became the ward of her uncle William Lyall, Dean of Canterbury. Her other uncle was traveller and author Alfred Lyall (1796–1865) and her cousin was poet Sir Afred Lyall (1835–1911). In her youth, she met the young Gladstone at her aunt's house in Yorkshire. She married clergyman Henry Carrington, the long-time Dean of Bocking, and the couple had three daughters. In middle age, Carrington penned two well-received novels. Interestingly, she was forced to reveal her authorship of the anonymously published My Cousin Maurice (1872) when a stranger claimed it as his own work. She died at an advanced age on 14 January 1910 in London.
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References: British Census (1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901); Evening Mail (19 January 1910)
Fiction Titles:
- My Cousin Maurice. 3 vol. London: Sampson Low, 1872.
- Prince Fortune and Prince Fatal. 3 vol. London: Sampson Low, 1880.