Person’s Profile
Phoebe Anne Allen (1850-1933)
Description
member of the Gosling Society and contributor to MP
Biography
Daughter of the Rev. John Collins Allen, Vicar of Hawley, Hants 1878-86, she was a Gosling as ‘Gridiron’. Living at Finchcox, Kilndown, Staplehurst (10 July 1870) and Hinton Martel Rectory, Wimborne (December 1876), she was perhaps a governess. She was author of 45 odd novels, stories for SPCK and translations. She was lame. [Vital Records Index; 1881 census, Will; Alumni Oxonienses; Who's Who in Lit 1906-34; BL cat]
