Marian Andrews

She wrote stories set in rural Wiltshire, followed by historical fiction and biographies of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century figures, especially women, complaining that "all serious consideration was reserved for the men of the period" among other historians.

[1] Marian was born Mary Ann Hare in Brompton, London, on 24 February 1839, the eldest child of lawyer Thomas Hare and his wife Mary, née Samson.

[2] Their four brothers were Sherlock, Herbert, Albert, and Lancelot Hare, lieutenant-governor of Bengal.

His work took them to Sussex, to Middlesex, and from 1873 to 1892 to Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, where her first stories were set.

[2] Her fictional village setting is modeled on her husband's parish, and shows a sympathetic understanding of his parishioner's lives including the interiors of cottages, folk customs, and the local workhouse.