Author: Florence J. O'Connor
Author: Florence J. O'Connor (died 1868)
Alternate Name(s): Williard (married name)
Biography: Florence Jane O'Connor was born in Louisiana. Her early life cannot be traced. She spent some time in England where she published a novel The Heroine of the Confederacy (1866). The same year, she married American army officer Elijah Arthur Willard in New Orleans. The couple lived in Illinois where their only child, a daughter, was born and died at five months old. O'Connor herself died a few months later on 17 September 1868 near Chicago. Her husband remarried in 1870 and later fled to Mexico after the failure of his bank.
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References: Manchester Courier (1 June 1866)
Fiction Titles:
- The Heroine of the Confederacy: or, Truth and Justice. 1 vol. London: Harrison, 1866.