About Cecilia Tilley
Lived 1816 – 1849 (aged 32–33). Cecilia Tilley was a British novelist.
Cecilia Frances Trollope Tilley (1816 – 10 April 1849 ) was a British novelist. She was the daughter of novelist Fanny Trollope and the sister of novelist Anthony Trollope.
Cecilia Trollope was one of seven children of Fanny Trollope and her husband, barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope. In 1839, she married John Tilley, a friend of her brother Anthony who later became Secretary to the General Post Office of the United Kingdom. They had five children.
Tilley published a single book under the pseudonym "By a Lady", the high church novel Chollerton: A Tale of Our Own Times (1846). in Kensington.
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Who was Cecilia Tilley?
British novelist (1816–1849)
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Cecilia Tilley was born in 1816.
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Cecilia Tilley died in 1849 in Kensington.
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Cecilia Tilley was a novelist.
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Cecilia Tilley was British.
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