Elizabeth Macneal

Elizabeth Sarah Macneal (born 16 October 1988) is a British writer, author of the award-winning book The Doll Factory, described as a "lush Victorian fiction".

She is the oldest of four children to award-winning Edinburgh architect Lorn Macneal[2] and his wife Catharine.

After graduating, she did further postgraduate study at the University of East Anglia as a Malcolm Bradbury Scholar, where she gained an MA.

The book explores the complex relationship between Iris Whittle and her artist-admirer, Louis Frost, and Silas Reed, a taxidermist and curio-collector.

[8] Her second novel, published in 2021, was entitled Circus of Wonders, was also set in Victorian England, Elizabeth's second book released in 2021 looks at the world of freak shows and atrocity exhibitions, from the perspective of one of the persons chosen for such a role due to their impairments.