The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Blundell, Mrs. Francis

BLUNDELL, (Mrs.) Francis (M. E. Francis), English novelist: b. Dublin. She is the widow of Francis N. Blundell and has lived for many years in Lancashire, but more recently in Dorsetshire. Her writings, which have steadily increased in popularity, both in England and the United States, include ‘In a North Country Village’ (1893); ‘The Song of Dan’ (1894); ‘Town Mice in the Country, a Story for Children’ (1894); ‘A Daughter of the Soil’ (1895); ‘Frieze and Fustian’ (1896); ‘Among the Untrodden Ways’ (1896); ‘The Duenna of a Genius’ (1898); ‘Yeoman Fleetwood’ (1899); ‘Pastorals of Dorset,’ ‘North, South, and Over the Sea,’ ‘The Manor Farm’ (1902); ‘Christian Thal’ (1903); ‘Dorset Dear’ (1905); ‘Simple Annals’ (1906); ‘Margery o' the Mill’ (1907); ‘Galatea of the Wheatfield’ (1909); ‘Our Alty’ (1912); ‘Molly's Fortunes’ (1914); ‘Dark Rosaleen’ (1915).