Julia Frankau

Julia Frankau, née Julia Davis (30 July 1859 ^[1] - 17 March 1916) was a successful novelist under the name of Frank Danby.^[2]

She was the sister of Owen Hall, Harrie Davis (1857–1920) and Eliza Davis. She was home-schooled by Laura Lafargue, the daughter of Karl Marx.^[2]

She married the cigar importer Arthur Frankau. With him, she became the mother of the author Gilbert Frankau and the actor Ronald Frankau. She is thus grandmother of Pamela Frankau.

During the 1890s, she focused on engraving and wrote about this topic. She returned to writing fiction in 1902.^[2]

Works

• Essays in the Saturday Review
• Dr. Phillips: a Maida Vale Idyll (1887)
• A Babe in Bohemia (1889)
• The Copper Crash (1889)
• A chapter of The Fate of Fenella (1891/92), an experiment in consecutive novel writing
• Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers & Their Work in Colour (1900) - published in her real name
• John Raphael Smith 1752-1812: His Life and Works (1902) - published in her real name
• Pigs in Clover (1903)
• Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward ARA, James Ward RA (1904) - published in her real name
• Baccarat (1904)
• The Sphinx's Lawyer (1906)
• A Coquette in Crape (1907)
• The Heart of a Child (1908)
• An Incompleat Etonian (1909)
• Sebastian (1909)
• The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton (1910) - later reissued as Nelson's Legacy
• Let the Roof Fall In (1910)
• Joseph in Jeopardy (1912)
• Full Swing (1914)
• Twilight (1916)
• Mothers and Children (1918) - a collection of previously unpublished stories edited by her son Gilbert Frankau

External links

• Death note in the New York Times
• Portrait
• Portrait

References