Flora Annie Steel

Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel, ca. 1903
Born	2 April 1847(1847-04-02) Sudbury, Middlesex, England
Died	12 April 1929(1929-04-12) (aged 82) Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	English
Period	19th century
Genres	Children's Literature

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 1929) was an English writer. She was the daughter of George Webster. In 1867 she married a member of the Indian civil service, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected.

When her husband's health was weak, Flora Annie Steel looked after some of his responsibilities. She acted as school inspector and mediator in local arguments.

She was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language.

She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales.

Her interest in schools and the education of women gave her a special insight into native life and character.

In 1889 the family moved back to Scotland, and she continued her writing there.

Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Illustration by Arthur Rackham from a 1918 English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel

Some of her best work, according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, is contained in two collections of short stories:

• From the Five Rivers (1893)
• Tales of the Punjab (1894)

Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) described incidents of the Indian Mutiny.

She also wrote a popular history of India. Her later works included:

• In the permanent way, and other stories (1897)
• Voices in the Night (1900)
• The Hosts of the Lord (1900)
• In the Guardianship of God (1903)
• A Sovereign Remedy (1906)
• India through the ages; a popular and picturesque history of Hindustan (1908)
• Mistress of men : a novel (1918)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Steel, Flora Annie". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Works by Flora Annie Steel at Project Gutenberg

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Name	Steel, Flora Annie
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Short description
Date of birth	2 April 1847
Place of birth	Sudbury, Middlesex, England
Date of death	1929
Place of death	Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England

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