Author: Mary F. Cross
Author: Mary F. Cross (1843–1902)
Alternate Name(s): Mary Findlay Wood Cross (legal name)
Biography: Mary Findlay Wood Cross was born on 2 April 1843 in Glasgow, the daughter of banker William Cross and his wife Anna Chalmers (née Wood). The family moved first to Lancashire then the London area. In midlife, she began writing short stories which were collected as Railway Sketches (1899). Thereafter she gives up writing apparently. She never married and died on 12 July 1902 in Tunbridge Wells.
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References: British Census (1851, 1871, 1881, 1901); Literary Year-Book (1900); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Railway Sketches. 1 vol. London: F. V. White, 1899.