Author: Bessie Samms Turner
Author: Bessie Samms Turner (1826–1892)
Biography: Bessie Samms Turner was born in 1826 in London, the daughter of John Turner and his wife Elizabeth. As a young woman, she wrote the single novel Niobe (1857). On 21 August 1858, she married physician John Weston Foakes. She died in 1892 in London.
References: British Census (1861, 1871)
Fiction Titles:
- Niobe: A Tale of Real Life. 1 vol. London: Saunders and Otley, 1857.