Peter David Edwards

John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH converted to Catholicism . Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court...

Edwards describes A House of Cards as a fairly routine, nondescript sensation story, but notes that it begins to eludicate a particular theme of Hoey's: the way impending death can focus the mind on...

Hoey's bibliographer Edwards notes that while Florence's reward for her virtue is an imbecile husband to nurse, she, like most of Mrs Hoey's true heroines, understands instinctively that all human aspirations, including love, must be...

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...

FSH 's final novel, according to bibliographer Edwards , was His Match, and More, published as a summer number of Household Words.

While Edwards estimates her annual literary income at around £400 a year, FSH always wished to do better. She hoped she would profit by any revival of interest in her fiction, but apart from...

Here James Morris falls in love with Emily Hargreaves, but a dispute between their fathers forces them to separate. James goes to the Brazils, and within a few months marries a second woman, not...

Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...

FSH began contributing A Lady's Letter from London to the Australasian, a Melbourne-based periodical. Her letters ran at varying intervals of between one and four weeks.

It was claimed by publisher William Tinsley in his autobiography that FSH was the unacknowledged author of large parts of four of Yates's novels, and likely sole author of A Righted Wrong. Tinsley believed...

P. D. Edwards lists a number of revisions of other writers' works by FSH , notably amongst them the corrections made on behalf of Marcus Clarke to his novel of Australian convict experience His Natural...