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STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )
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See also:STEEL, See also:FLORA ANNIE (1847– ) , See also:English writer, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:April 1847, the daughter of See also:George See also:Webster. In 1867 she married an See also:Indian civilian, and for the next twenty-two years lived in See also:India, chiefly in the See also:Punjab, with which most of her books are connected; her See also:interest in the See also:education of See also:women, as an inspectress of See also:schools, gave her a See also:special insight into native See also:life and See also:character. Some of her best See also:work is contained in two collections of See also:short stories: From the Five See also:Rivers (1893) and Tales from the Punjab (1894); while her most ambitious effort was her novel, On the See also:face of the See also:Waters (1896), describing incidents of the Indian See also:Mutiny. She also wrote a popular See also:history of India. Later See also:works are In the Permanent Way (1897), Voices in the See also:Night (1900), The Hosts of the See also:Lord (1900), In the Guardianship of See also:God (1903), A See also:Sovereign Remedy (1906). End of Article: STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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