Author: Ellen Epps
Author: Ellen Epps (1809–1876)
Alternate Name(s): Elliott (maiden name)
Biography: Ellen Epps was born in 1809 in London, the daughter of John Frederick Elliott. In 1831, she married physician John Epps and the couple lived in Bloomsbury where he carried on a practice. They had no children. In middle age, Epps wrote three well-received anonymous novels and a work of nonfiction, Practical Observations on Health and Long Life (1855). She died on 7 July 1876 in London.
References: Boase; British Census (1851, 1861, 1871); Globe (11 July 1876)
Fiction Titles:
- Labour and Live: A Story. 1 vol. London: A. W. Bennett, 1848.
- Blenham: or, What Came of Troubling the Waters. A Story Founded on Facts. 1 vol. London: W. and F. G. Cash, 1855.
- The Living among the Dead: A Story Founded on Facts. 1 vol. London: Arthur Hall, 1860.