Beatrice Batty

Beatrice Stebbing Batty (30 August 1833 – 30 April 1933) was an English writer and author of ten novels.

Batty was educated at a Moravian boarding school in Neuwied, Rhineland in west Germany.

[2] Her experiences there formed the basis for her first book, An English Girl's Account of a Moravian Settlement, which was published in 1858.

[3] Batty wrote at least ten novels, and was editor-in-chief of Coral magazine.

She carried on a longtime personal correspondence with John Horden, the first Anglican Bishop of Moosonee, Canada, and in 1893 she published a book of extracts from his letters and papers called Forty-Two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo; Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee.