About Caroline Lunn
Lived 1823 – 1893 (aged 69–70). Caroline Lunn was a British novelist.
Caroline Sophia Grundy Lunn ( – ) was an English novelist and hymnwriter. She sometimes published under the pseudonym Linus.
Biography Caroline Sophia Grundy was born on in Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England, the daughter of farmer John Grundy.
Grundy married John Calbraith Lunn, an Irish-born Unitarian minister and amateur astronomer who was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, on 10 December 1851.
In 1860, she published a collection of poems under the pseudonym Linus. She went on to publish four novels in the 1870s and 1880s.
Lunn's husband died in 1891. She died in 1893 and was buried in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.
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British novelist
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Caroline Lunn was born in 1823 in Fenny Drayton.
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Caroline Lunn died in 1893.
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Caroline Lunn was a novelist.
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Caroline Lunn was British.
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· DBpedia: Caroline Sophia Lunn
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