Flora Annie Steel

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Standard Name: Steel, Flora Annie
Birth Name: Flora Annie Webster
Married Name: Flora Annie Steel
Publishing from the 1880s through the first three decades of the twentieth century, FAS produced some thirty books. Most of her novels describe contemporary Anglo-Indian life, though some are set in Britain (seldom in England) and five are historical novels about India (four of those being about the relatively distant time of the Mughal emperors, and one of them called by its author a biography). Of about eighty-five short stories collected in her successive volumes of short fiction, a number present, with imaginative sympathy, virtually every facet of Indian life,
Steel, Flora Annie. “Introduction”. The Best Short Stories of Flora Annie Steel, edited by Saros Cowasjee et al., Indus, p. i - xvi.
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often unmediated by any western presence. She also published history, a pamphlet on women's rights, and a vivid if impressionistic autobiography. FAS 's India is that of the British Raj, a place where sharply distinct cultures remain essentially unaffected by close contact, often erotic, between members of different races and religions. FAS has nothing but scorn for Anglos who cannot adapt to India, but also deep anxieties for Indians adapting to western ways.

Connections

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Textual Features Ethel M. Dell
She began writing about British India, which she learned about from younger cousins and from the works of Flora Annie Steel , Maud Diver , Alice Perrin , F. E. Penney , and Rudyard Kipling .
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
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Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
Wealth and Poverty Evelyn Sharp
During the First World War, when ES had refused for years, on political grounds, to pay her taxes, when the amount owed had swelled with the cost of several summonses to fifty pounds, she was...

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Texts

Steel, Flora Annie. The Hosts of the Lord. Heinemann, 1900.
Steel, Flora Annie. The Law of the Threshold. Heinemann, 1924.
Steel, Flora Annie. The Mercy of the Lord. Heinemann, 1914.
Corelli, Marie et al. The Modern Marriage Market. Hutchinson, 1898.
Steel, Flora Annie. The Potter’s Thumb. Heinemann, 1894.
Steel, Flora Annie. Voices in the Night. Heinemann, 1900.
Steel, Flora Annie, and Richard Carnac Temple. Wide Awake Stories. Education Society, 1884.