Frances Colenso
-
Standard Name: Colenso, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Ellen Colenso
Nickname: Fanny
Pseudonym: Atherton Wylde
Pseudonym: Zandile
South Africa, and many of her writings reflect her disapproval of the British colonial governmental practices that she witnessed. Her two novels approach these issues from the angle of fiction, and she also produced in her two historical studies a notable account of Natal, its history, its people, and the political climate in which they lived.
spent most of her life (lived during the second half of the nineteenth century) in