John Strange Winter (1856–1911)
Author of The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker
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Works by John Strange Winter
That little French baby 3 copies
Army Society 2 copies
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Colonel's Daughter 1 copy
Dinna Forget 1 copy
Mrs. Bob, a Rambling Story 1 copy
A wavering image 1 copy
The soul of the bishop 1 copy
Sophy Carmine 1 copy
I married a wife : a novel 1 copy
The stranger woman 1 copy
Wedlock 1 copy
Heart and Sword 1 copy
Little Gervaise 1 copy
The Truth-tellers: a Novel 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Winter, John Strange
- Legal name
- Stannard, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer
- Other names
- White, Violet (first pen name)
- Birthdate
- 1856-01-13
- Date of death
- 1911-12-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
England - Birthplace
- York, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Occupations
- short story writer
novelist
magazine editor - Organizations
- Society of Women Journalists (1901)
Writer's Club (first president ∙ 1892) - Awards and honors
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Short biography
- John Strange Winter was the pen name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer Stannard, born in York, England. Her father Henry Vaughan Palmer was a clergyman who had previously been an officer in the British army and was descended from several generations of soldiers. She was educated at Bootham House School in York. She became a prolific and popular author of more than 100 novels and volumes of short stories and is best known for her early military fiction. In 1874, while still in her teens, she made her literary debut, writing under the pseudonym "Violet Whyte" for the Family Herald. In 1881, she published Cavalry Life, a collection of sketches, followed by Regimental Legends in 1883. Her publisher insisted on a masculine pseudonym for the books, and the public assumed the author to be an army officer. In 1884, she married Arthur Stannard, a civil engineer, with whom she had four children. She also edited an illustrated magazine, Winter's Weekly, from 1891 to 1894, and was a member of literary and artistic circles in London.
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- Works
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- Also by
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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