About the author

Lanoe Falconer (1848–1908) was the pen name of the British novelist Mary Hawker. Public information about her life is limited; what is known is that she published under this pen name, and one of her works is held in this collection, Cecilia de Noël. She also wrote other novels, including Miss Ix. Judging from the surviving works, her writing centres on the fates and emotions of fictional characters, showing the narrative interests of nineteenth-century British fiction, with delicate prose and attention to character portrayal and plot development. Because historical sources are scarce, a full picture of her output and literary influence is difficult to establish in detail; nonetheless, as one of the Victorian women novelists who wrote under a pen name, her work offers a small but concrete example for understanding the literary landscape of women's writing in her time.

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