Frances Sarah Hoey

Published in the latter half of the nineteenth century, FSH 's oeuvre included sensation novels, journalism, translations of French and Italian works, and many reviews. She was actively involved in literary circles, and notable both for her early reporting on the Paris Commune and for her regular column in the Australasian. Unfortunately, much modern consideration of her work has tended to be overshadowed by an attribution controversy involving her and Edmund Yates . Critic P. D. Edwards describes her as a novelist a little cleverer and more serious than the general run, although contemporary reviewers of her fiction tended to be less kind.