Author: Gertrude P. Dyer
Author: Gertrude P. Dyer (1839–1909)
Biography: Gertrude Penphraze Dyer was born on 18 January 1839 in London, the daughter of hotel keeper Robert Dyer and his wife Jane. A precocious child, she wrote a short fairy tale at ten years old which her parents had printed. By her twenties, she was living with her widowed mother in Richmond and working as a daily governess. Dyer began writing juvenile fiction, much with a didactic message. By the 1890s, she moved south to Dorset then to Devon. She never married and died on 19 October 1909 in Datchet Salcombe.
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References: British Census (1841, 1851, 1861, 1881, 1891), Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Stories of the Flowers. 1 vol. London: Virtue, 1877.
- Elsie's Adventures in Insect Land. 1 vol. London: Marcus Ward, 1882.
- How Hettie Caught the Sunbeams. 1 vol. London: J. F. Shaw, 1886.
- Armour Clad: or, Arthur's Victory. 1 vol. London: J. F. Shaw, 1887.