Lucy Elizabeth Bather (

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, Aunt Lucy; 1830–1864) was an English writer for children.

Biography

Bather was the fourth daughter, by his second marriage, of Charles Blomfield,

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. She was born at

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, London, on 31 March 1830. Her education, like that of her brothers and sisters, was watched, and to some extent conducted, by their father, and she learned something of the classical languages. On 29 August 1861 she married Arthur Henry Bather, of

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, fourth son of John Bather, Esq., recorder of Shrewsbury. She died at The Hall, Meole Brace, near Shrewsbury, after a very short illness, on 5 September 1864. She possessed the happy faculty of interesting the young by apt and attractive instruction, and wrote a number of stories for juvenile readers, and a volume entitled ''Footprints on the Sands of Time. Biographies for Young People. Dedicated to her Nephews and Nieces'', by L. E. B.. The Introduction, addressed to 'My dear Young Friends', is subscribed 'Aunt Lucy', the pseudonym by which the author was best known.

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1830 births 1864 deaths 19th-century English women writers 19th-century English writers Blomfield family English children's writers People from Fulham Victorian women writers Victorian writers {{England-writer-stub