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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey

Author: Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey (1851–1911)

Biography: Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey was born in 1851 at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucester, the youngest daughter of Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 4th baronet, and Elizabeth Daubeny. Her father died when she was young (in 1862). In 1888, Crawley-Boevey wrote Dene Forest Sketches (1888), a study about the Forest of Dean where her father was the verderer. She followed this with two novels: the mystical-themed Beyond Cloudland (1888) and the love story Conscience Makes the Martyr (1894). She never married and died in 1911.

References: British Census (1881); Burke; Times (16 August 1911)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Beyond Cloudland: A Novel.  2 vol.  London: Alexander Gardner, 1888.
  2. Conscience Makes the Martyr.  1 vol.  Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1894.