Felicia Skene

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Felicia Mary Frances Skene (1821–1899) was a Scottish author, philanthropist and prison reformer in the Victorian era.

Felicia Skene's works include:

• The Isles of Greece and Other Poems (1843)
• The Lesters (1847)
• Wayfaring Sketches (1847)
• The Inheritance of Evil: Or, the Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister (1849)
• The Tutor's Ward (1851) — in two volumes
• The Divine Master (1852)
• Penitentiaries and Reformatories (1865)
• The Shadow of the Holy Week (1883)
• Scenes from a Silent World: Or Prisons and their Inmates (1889)
• A Test of the Truth (1897)

Skene used the pseudonym Erskine Moir. She was a friend of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910).

There is a blue plaque for Felicia Skene, installed on 2 July 2002 by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, located at 34 St Michael's Street in central Oxford, England.

[edit] External links

• Entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Online Books by Felicia Skene
• Skene, Felicia information from About.com