Author: Georgiana C. Clunes
Author: Georgiana C. Clunes (1840–1923)
Alternate Name(s): Gedge (married name)
Biography: Georgiana Carolina Clunes was born on 15 June 1840 in Cheltenham, the daughter of army officer John Clunes and his wife Lydia Lucy. Her father served in the Indian Army and wrote the book Historical Sketches of the Princes of India (1833). As a young woman, she wrote the anonymous Maud Neville (1864) and later The Story of Pauline (1870). In 1882, Clunes married clergyman Hugh Somerville Gedge, the vicar of All Saints in Leicester, and the couple had no children. On 2 September 1898, husband and wife were injured in a train accident at Wellingborough from which her husband never fully recovered. They both died in 1923: Hugh in April and Georgiana on 25 November 1923 in Cheltenham. Note: The Smith, Elder accounts identify the author as "Miss Clunes." A "Col. Clunes" handled the correspondence.
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References: British Census (1841, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891); Gloucester Journal (15 July 1882); Leicester Chronicle (1 December 1923)
Fiction Titles:
- Maud Neville. 2 vol. London: Smith, Elder, 1864.
- The Story of Pauline: An Autobiography. 2 vol. London: Macmillan, 1870.