Francis Crossley

During Sydney Owenson's young years a series of infatuated young men pursued her, including the youthful poet Thomas Dermody , and Francis Crossley , her volunteer amanuensis, who later became an army officer in India...

In manuscript this novel, planned in the same early period as St. Clair, extended to six volumes, transcribed for its author by a young admirer, Francis Crossley . She later said that...