About Frances Brough
Lived 1803 – 1897 (aged 93–94). Frances Brough was a British novelist.
Frances "Fanny" Brough (1803 – November 23, 1897) was a British novelist and poet. She was the matriarch of a family of writers and actors, including her sons William Brough, Robert Barnabas Brough, John Cargill Brough, and Lionel Brough, and grandchildren Fanny Brough and Robert Brough.
She was born Frances Whiteside in 1803. In 1827, she married Barnabas Brough.
Fanny Brough published two novels. The first was a two-volume novel, Madame Vernet (1864). The second was a three-volume novel, Hidden Fire (1867), about the Chartists.
Frances Brough died on 23 November 1897 in Wandsworth Common at the age of 94.
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