Henrietta Tindal

Henrietta Euphemia Harrison (bap. 1817 – 6 May 1879), later Mrs. Acton Tindal, was a British poet and novelist who wrote as Diana Butler.

Life Tindal was baptised in 1817. Her mother was Elizabeth (born Wollaston) and her father was John Harrison of Ramsey, Essex, Vicar of Dinton, Buckinghamshire. She learnt about English poetry and she developed some facility in French and Italian. She was her parents' only surviving child and heir.

In 1846 she married Acton Tindal who lived at the Manor House in Aylesbury, as his father and grandfather had.

She died in 1879 with four surviving children and she was later included as a "Worthy of Buckinghamshire".

Her story "The Strange Story of Kitty Hancomb" (1862) was reprinted in Temple Bar in 1880. The story describes how Lord Dalmeny in the 18th century had married a clergyman's wife by mistake. It had originally been published under her non de plume, Diana Butler, but in the reprinted edition it was titled "Kitty Canham" by Mrs Acton Tindal.