About Frances Collins
Lived 1840 – 1886 (aged 45–46). Frances Collins was a writer.
Frances Collins (née Dunn; 14 July 1840 – Camberley, Surrey, 17 March 1886) was a British writer and the wife of Mortimer Collins.
Biography Frances Dunn was born in 1840. She married the writer Mortimer Collins in 1868. Mortimer Collins was ill and struggling financially when the couple married, and Frances helped him to manage his finances and co-wrote his last few books with him. She also wrote several short pieces for periodicals such as Punch.
Publications (with Mortimer Collins) A Fight With Fortune (1876) (with Mortimer Collins) You Play Me False (1878)
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British writer
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Frances Collins was born on 14 July 1840.
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Frances Collins died in 1886.
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Frances Collins was a writer.
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