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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Sibyl Mary Creed

Author: Sibyl Mary Creed (1857–1926)

Biography: Sibyl Mary Creed was born in 1857 in London, the second daughter of Charles Creed and Louisa Dorothea Pollock. Her maternal grandfather was Sir Frederick Pollock, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. She lived her entire life in London where she lived with her mother (until her death in 1883) then with her aunt Mary Rivers Pollock. In the twentieth century, she wrote three novels beginning with The Vicar of St. Luke's (1901) about a high-church clergyman's conversion to Rome. She never married and died in 1926.

References: British Census (1871, 1881, 1891, 1901); Burke; Wellesley

Fiction Titles:

  1. The Vicar of St. Luke's.  1 vol.  London: Longman, 1901.