Lucie Armstrong

[1][2][3] Her father had recently retired from the Bengal Army on health grounds after thirty years' service.

[4] In November 1885 she married John Childe Heaton Armstrong at the register office on The Strand; he was a 34-year-old translator and the elder brother of William Heaton-Armstrong, later a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party.

John and Lucie lived near the British Museum, but he died of gastroenteritis four and a half months after the wedding.

[7] The book was well received by Florence Fenwick-Miller, reviewing for The Illustrated London News, who called Armstrong an "accomplished authoress" who was experienced in writing on etiquette.

[2] Armstrong is known to have written for, or been published in Lady's Pictorial, The Globe, Womanhood, The Court Journal, The Ludgate Monthly, The Woman's Signal (and its predecessor, Women's Paper Penny), John Bull, Belgravia, London Society, Chapman's Magazine of Fiction, The Sketch, Pall Mall Budget, Hearth and Home and several provincial journals.