F. E. Mills Young
UK author (1875-1945) mostly of romances from the turn of the century to about 1936
About F. E. Mills Young
Lived 1875 – 1945 (aged 69–70). F. E. Mills Young was a writer.
Florence Ethel Mills Young (1875 – 6 November 1945 ) was an English writer of popular fiction.
Work Born in Twickenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom, in 1875, Her early works were often about the English in southern Africa.
Her novel, Myles Calthrope I. D. B., was filmed as Thou Art the Man in 1920. A Mistaken Marriage (1908) contains highly negative Jewish characters, as do many novels about South Africa in that period, in connection with illegal diamond selling. The main character is said by the heroine to have "the ugliest smile she had ever seen distort a human face." Noting the publication of The Purple Mists, The Spectator comments in 1914 that it features "a strong, silent man", and adds: "Miss Young writes with remarkable fluency and has a strong grip of the plot." At least one of her novels was translated into German.
She died in Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, South Africa at 6 November 1945.
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UK author (1875-1945) mostly of romances from the turn of the century to about 1936
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F. E. Mills Young was born in 1875.
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F. E. Mills Young died on 6 November 1945.
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F. E. Mills Young was a writer.
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