Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel | |
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Flora Annie Steel, c. 1903 | |
| Born | 2 April 1847 Sudbury, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 12 April 1929 (aged 82) Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 19th century |
| Genre | History, Fiction, Children's Literature |
Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian subcontinent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.