Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey

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Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey
Born1851
Gloucestershire, UK
Died1911
OccupationAuthor
NationalityBritish
PeriodVictorian
GenreFiction
RelativesCharlotte Mary Yonge, Thomas Hyde Page, Arthur William Crawley Boevey

Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey (1851-1911) was a British author of Victorian fiction novels. They are mostly out of print.

Biography

Sybella Mary Crawley-Boevey was born in 1851 at Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire, the youngest daughter of Sir Martin Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 4th Baronet. She is the sister of author and civil servant Arthur William Crawley Boevey and the cousin of famous Victorian author Charlotte Mary Yonge.[1]

In 1888, Crawley-Boevey wrote Dene Forest Sketches (1888), a study about the Forest of Dean where her father was the verderer. She followed this with two novels: the mystical-themed Beyond Cloudland (1888) and the love story Conscience Makes the Martyr (1894) [2]

Works

Date Title
1888 Dene Forest Sketches
1888 Beyond Cloudland
1890 A Love Picture in Three Strokes
1892 By the Light of the Nursery Lamp. To Storyland
1894 Conscience Makes the Martyr

References