Felicia Skene

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FS published in a wide variety of genres, including devotional works and religious memoirs, novels, and poetry. She wrote regularly for periodicals. She was a well-known philanthropist and published many of her works to raise money for her favourite charities. Her most significant work is Hidden Depths, 1866, a realist novel about prostitution.
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.

Milestones

23 May 1821

FS was born at Aix-en-Provence in Southern France, the youngest in her family of seven surviving children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under James Skene

1843

After five years living in Greece, FS published her first work, a collection of poems entitled The Isles of Greece, and Other Poems as Felicia Mary Frances Skene.
The title apparently alludes to a well-known poem by Byron , which shares it.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

By 17 February 1866

FS anonymously published at Edinburgh her most important work, Hidden Depths, a realist novel about prostitution in Oxford.
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.
1999 (1866): 233-4
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.

6 October 1899

FS died at 3 St Michael Street, Oxford, of bronchitis, aged seventy-eight.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

23 May 1821

FS was born at Aix-en-Provence in Southern France, the youngest in her family of seven surviving children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under James Skene

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