Frances Elizabeth Herring

Frances Elizabeth Herring, (December 23, 1851 - November 16, 1916) was a Canadian journalist and novelist. In addition to her fiction, she wrote history books on British Columbia.

Biography Herring was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk in southern England. Her parents were John Jonathan Herring and Harriet Clarke. She taught briefly in Reading before emigrating to British Columbia in 1871. In 1874 she married her cousin, Arthur Herring. They settled in Langley, B.C. where she worked as a teacher. Langley at the time was a former fur trading post and many of her students were from First Nations (Perry, 162). According to an 1877 report by the provincial superintendent of education, she was one of the best teachers. In 1878 Herring and her husband moved to New Westminster where he started a wholesale and retail drug business. Frances spent her time in raising her family which eventually numbered to eight children.