Flora Annie Steel | |
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![]() Flora Annie Steel, c. 1903 | |
Born | Sudbury, Middlesex, England[1] | 2 April 1847
Died | 12 April 1929 Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England[1] | (aged 82)
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 sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.