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WINTER, JOHN STRANGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 734 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WINTER, See also:JOHN See also:STRANGE , the See also:pen-name of Henrietta Eliza See also:Vaughan See also:Stannard (1856– ), See also:English novelist, who was See also:born on the 13th of See also:January 1856, the daughter of the Rev. H. V. See also:Palmer, See also:rector of St See also:Margaret's, See also:York. She See also:early began to write fiction for different magazines, producing sentimental stories, chiefly of See also:army See also:life. Two of these, Booties' Baby and Houp-la, which appeared originally in The Graphic in 1885, established her reputation, and she became a prolific novelist, producing some sixty other See also:light and amusing books, the best of which See also:deal with military life. An indefatigable journalist on matters affecting See also:women, she was the first See also:president of the Writers' See also:Club (1892), and presided from Igor to 1903 over the Society of Women Journalists. She married in 1884 See also:Arthur Stannard, a See also:civil engineer.

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