Florence Marryat, who published about eighty books during the later nineteenth century, was primarily a novelist (known for fiction that plays about the borders of the supernatural, in spiritualist and vampire novels) and also a playwright and travel writer.
Milestones
9 July 1837 FM was born at
Brighton in
Sussex; she was the sixth daughter and the eleventh and youngest child in her family.
By 11 February 1865 FM published her first novel,
Love's Conflict.
By 11 March 1871 Her Lord and Master, one of FM's best-known novels, was published under both her names: 'Florence Marryat (Mrs. Ross Church)'.
1891 FM published
There Is No Death, a book about her experiences with spiritualism and its practitioners.
