Frances Notley wrote novels and short stories from the middle to the late nineteenth century, frequently combining sensational and supernatural elements. Many of her stories are set in her native
Cornwall, and draw on the culture and stories of the region.
Milestones
Late 1850 The anonymous three-volume novel
Pique, A Tale of the English Aristocracy was probably FN's first; its authorship was alluded to two years later on the title page of her
Agatha Beaufort; or, Family Pride.
By September 1912 FN died at
Totnes in
Devon in her early nineties, having been a widow for almost sixty years.
