Author: Amy Sagon Page
Author: Amy Sagon Page (1859–1926)
Alternate Name(s): Amyot Sagon (pseudonym)
Biography: Amy Sagon Page was born in 1859 in Hampstead, the daughter of Alfred Richard Sagon Page and his wife Frances Miller Ball. She worked as a governess and teacher for several years in London. In the 1890s, she turned to writing with the novel A Fair Palmist (1896) under the pseudonym "Amyot Sagon" (a variation on her legal name) and she wrote several more over the next ten years. She never married and lived with her widowed mother and spinster sister. After the death of her sister, she inexplicably emigrated to Argentina in 1915. According to a shipmate, she had a premonition of disaster on board and they learned of the sinking of the Lusitania when they docked. After twelve years in Buenos Aires, she moved to Santos, Brazil where she died suddenly on 1 January 1926. Her death notice observes she took a great interest in the Seaman's Mission. Her brother William Sagon Page emigrated to Australia where he became noted for his sand modeling and tall tales.
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References: Brazilian American (16 January 1926); British Census (1881, 1911); Peel City Guardian (25 September 1915); pers inf (Barry Stevens)
Fiction Titles:
- A Fair Palmist. 1 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1896.
- An Australian Duchess. 1 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
- When George the Third was King. 1 vol. London: Sands, 1899.