Person’s Profile
Matilda Anne (Planché) Mackarness (1826-1881)
Description
writer for children
Biography
Younger daughter of James Robinson Planché, the dramatist, she married (1852) the Rev. Henry S. Mackarness (d. 1868), brother of John Fielder Mackarness. She was left a widow with seven children, lived with her father, wrote children's books [DNB]