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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

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:

  1. Niobe: A Tale of Real Life.  1 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1857.