Francis Charles Philips

Francis Charles Philips (3 February 1849 – 21 April 1921) was a British army officer, actor, theatre-manager, dramatist, barrister, journalist, short story writer and novelist.

[4] After a course at Sandhurst, Philips became a British army officer, gazetted to the 2nd Queen's Royals shortly before his nineteenth birthday.

[5] In 1886 for a paper called Life, Philips wrote a weekly serial entitled Le Journal d'une Mondaine.

After rejection by five publishing companies, Philips, on the advice of his friend Edward Morton, submitted the work to Ward & Downey.

[7] In April 1889 Sarah Bernhardt was a success in the role of "Lena Despard", the main character in a French stage adaptation of the novel As in a Looking Glass.

[9] He collaborated with Seymour Hicks on the play Papa's Wife, an adaptation of Philips's story In the Third Capacity.