Sarah Grand
Sarah Grand was born Frances Clarke to English parents in Ireland in 1854, and returned to Britain with her mother and siblings after her father died when she was eight. She was expelled from the Royal Naval School in Twickenham for organizing feminist protests. An unsuccessful marriage caused her to seek her independence by writing; her first novel was published in 1888. Several extremely successful novels and stories followed which embraced the themes of the New Woman movement, most notably The Heavenly Twins (1893) and The Beth Book (1897). She died in 1943.
