Frances Collins (writer)

Frances Collins (née Dunn; 14 July 1840 - Camberley, Surrey, 17 March 1886) was a British writer and the wife of Mortimer Collins.

Biography

Frances Dunn was born in 1840. She married the writer Mortimer Collins in 1868.^[1] Mortimer Collins was ill and struggling financially when the couple married, and Frances helped him to manage his finances and co-wrote his last few books with him.^[1] Following her husband's death in 1876, Frances Collins published several novels under her own name as well as a memoir of her husband.^[2] She also wrote several short pieces for periodicals such as Punch.^[3]

Publications

• (with Mortimer Collins) A Fight With Fortune (1876)^[2]
• Mortimer Collins: His Letters and Friendships (1877)^[4]
• (with Mortimer Collins) You Play Me False (1878)^[2]
• A Broken Lily (1882)^[2]
• The Village Comedy (1883)^[5]