Amy Dora Reynolds

[1] Her father was the popular Victorian landscape artist Sidney Richard Percy, a member of the Williams family of painters.

Although she showed promise as an artist, she became a well-known writer instead of crime and romance novels under the pen name of Mrs. Fred Reynolds.

Between 1889 and 1936 she published 41 books, including an Idyll of the Dawn (1898) and A Quaker Wooing (1905), both of which are autobiographical in part.

[3] She married Richard Freshfield (Fred) Reynolds (1860-1907), a pharmaceutical chemist, on 15 September 1886 at St. Michael and All Angels Church in Bedford Park, Chiswick.

She was interned briefly with her daughter in Italy towards the end of World War II, and died on 11 June 1957 at the age of 96 at Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, Lancashire.