Frances Isabella Staveley Berkeley Wood Kortright wrote as Fanny Aikin Kortright and Berkeley Aikin (28 January 1821 – 31 October 1900) was an English governess, anti-suffragist, writer and editor.

Her mother was Irish and her father was born in New York but he had spent his career as a Royal Navy officer.

[3] Her first novel Anna Sherwood was published in 1857 with the nom de plume of Berkeley Aikin.

Between 1868 and 1870 she was working at the editor of the Court Suburb Magazine which was aimed at readers in Kensington.

[2] Kortright died in Islington in 1900 where she had been taken into the Mercers' Company almshouse at Whittington College four years before.