Florence Ethel Mills Young (1875 – 6 November 1945[1]) was an English writer of popular fiction.
Work
editBorn in Twickenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom, in 1875,[1] Young wrote 50 novels between 1910 and 1941.[2] Her early works were often about the English in southern Africa.
Her novel, Myles Calthrope I. D. B., was filmed as Thou Art the Man in 1920. A Mistaken Marriage (1908) contains highly negative Jewish characters, as do many novels about South Africa in that period, in connection with illegal diamond selling. The main character is said by the heroine to have "the ugliest smile she had ever seen distort a human face."[3] Noting the publication of The Purple Mists, The Spectator comments in 1914 that it features "a strong, silent man", and adds: "Miss Young writes with remarkable fluency and has a strong grip of the plot."[4] At least one of her novels was translated into German.[5]
She died in Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town, South Africa at 6 November 1945.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Authors: Young, Florence Ethel: SFE: Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ Harold Orel. Popular Fiction in England, 1914–1918.
- ^ Michael Diamond (2006). Lesser Breeds: Racial Attitudes in Popular British Fiction, 1890–1940. London: Anthem Press. p. 116. ISBN 9781843312161. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ The Spectator. 23 May 1914. p. 26. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ "Die Schatten der Vergangenheit von Young, F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills), B. 1875, ISBN 0886777178". online lesen oder download kostenlos auf webgestaltung-frankenthal.de. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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