Christina Fraser-Tytler

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CFT was a Scottish-born novelist and poet with a taste for melodramatic plots and working-class protagonists. In the later decades of the nineteenth century, she published at least six novels, three poetry volumes, a collection of short stories, and a biography of her husband.

Milestones

13 February 1848

CFT was born at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, India (the Indian state now known for the dominance of the megacity Mumbai).
Some sources, including the Feminist Companion, erroneously place her birth in Morayshire in Scotland.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1869

CFT 's first publication was the short-story collection Sweet Violet, and Other Stories, illustrated by MFT, probably her sister.
The British Library Catalogue identifies this illustrator with Margaret Fraser Tytler , an author who began publishing in 1838, a decade before CFT 's birth, but the Feminist Companion calls this Margaret a sister of CFT . The OCLC attributes the illustrations to her other sister, Mary .
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1871

CFT 's best-known work, the young adult novel Jasmine Leigh, was published; a second edition appeared in 1885.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1916

CFT 's final work was a biography of her husband, Edward Liddell , entitled A Shepherd of the Sheep; The Life-Story of an English Parish-Priest.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

29 June 1927

Poet and novelist CFT died after thirteen years as a widow.
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.
thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

13 February 1848

CFT was born at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, India (the Indian state now known for the dominance of the megacity Mumbai).
Some sources, including the Feminist Companion, erroneously place her birth in Morayshire in Scotland.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.