Anne Beale

Anne Beale (1816 – 17 April 1900) was a popular English novelist and poet based in Wales.

Her poetry, novels and stories appeared in print for over 50 years in her lifetime: "an unusually long career as an author".

[1] Late in life she moved to London, where she died at 68 Belsize Road, South Hampstead, in April 1900.

[5] As well as her girls' stories and a volume of poetry, she contributed Welsh-interest articles and poems to English and Scottish magazines.

An 1869 review of Country Courtships in the Welsh newspaper The Welshman reported: "She knows the country well, and her descriptions of its scenery, its institutions, its people are severely truthful but, at the same time, so skilfully done, and with so much warmth and character as to captivate every person who cares to read one of the best and ablest novels of the season.

Anne Beale (1816–1900), as depicted in a 1901 issue of Girls' Own Paper