Georgiana Craik

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GC wrote over thirty novels, works for children, and contributions for periodical publications, between the mid and the late nineteenth century. Her novels frequently use sensational scenarios, and often feature self-sufficient heroines who prove to be more capable than the men they marry. Although there is a modern perception of her work as undistinguished,
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
GC 's novels, and particularly her children's books, remained popular well into the early twentieth century.

Milestones

April 1831

GC was born, probably at Vine Cottage, Cromwell Lane, Old Brompton, London, the youngest of three daughters; she also had a brother.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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By 12 March 1859

GC published Lost and Won, the novel for which she is best remembered.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cambridge University Press.

1 November 1895

Georgiana Craik died at 1 Magdalen Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass.

Biography

Birth and Family

April 1831

GC was born, probably at Vine Cottage, Cromwell Lane, Old Brompton, London, the youngest of three daughters; she also had a brother.
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Lillie Craik