Author: Marie A. Tassell
Author: Marie A. Tassell (1854–1926)
Alternate Name(s): Marie Agnes Lingeman (maiden name)
Biography: Marie A. Tassell was born in 1854 in Dulwich, the daughter of Dutch-born merchant Louis Francesco Lingeman and his wife E. A. Koster. In 1875, she married the solicitor Allan Tassell and the couple had two children. During her married life she wrote a novel Wild Gwen (1897). It does not appear that she wrote another. In the twentieth century, the family moved to Canterbury where she died on 31 October 1926. According to her obituary, "literary work had been a hobby of hers."
References: British Census (1861, 1911); Faversham News (9 November 1951); Probate
Fiction Titles:
- Wild Gwen: A Story of School Life. 1 vol. London: S. P. C. K., 1897.