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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MARSHALL LEAN.) 



them are to be found among those written within 

 the past twenty years, and, in spite of the great 

 number of books put forth by her, no falling of! 

 may be noted in comparing her very latest ones 

 with those ten years earlier. While mainly de- 

 signed for the reading of young people, they are 

 not to be classed among juvenile tales, and in the 

 study of English literature and history they form 

 almost invaluable aids in awakening an interest 

 in the famous people of the past. Such books as 

 Under Salisbury Spire (1889), In Winchester 

 Meads (1891), and Penshurst Castle (1893) might 

 well find a place in the library of every school 

 where English literature and history are taught. 

 A nearly complete list of Mrs. Marshall's books 

 includes Happy Days at Fernbank (1861); Edith 

 Prescott (1803): Rainy Days (1803); Rose Bry- 

 ant (1803); Helen's Diary, or Thirty Years Ago 

 (1804); Katie's Work (1804); Consideration 

 (1804); Brook Silverstone (1805); Roger's Ap- 

 prenticeship (1805); Ida, or Living for Others 

 (18<i:>) ; The Dawn of Life (1800) ; Milicent Legh 

 (18001: Grannie's Wardrobe (1807); The Old 

 Gateway (1807); Theodora's Childhood (1807); 

 Daisy Bright (1808); Grace Buxton (1808); 

 The 'Little Peat Cutter (1808); Violet Douglas 

 (1808); Little May's Legacy (1808); Brothers 

 and Sisters (1809); The Story of the Two Mar- 

 garets (1809); Edward's Wife (1870); Prim- 

 rose, or the Bells of Old Effingham (1870); 

 Christabel Kingscote (1870) ; Heights and Valleys 

 (1871); Stellafont Abbey (1871); Three Little 

 Sisters (1871); To-Day and Yesterday (1871); 

 Matthew Frost, Carrier (1872); Between the 

 Cliffs (1873) ; Mrs. Mainwaring's Journal (1873) ; 

 Nowadays (1874) ; A Lily among Thorns (1874) ; 

 Three Little Brothers (1875); Life's Aftermath 

 (1876); Joanna's Inheritance (1876); Lady 

 Alice, or Two Sides to a Picture (1877); Mrs. 

 Haycock's Chronicles (1877); A History of 

 France (1877) ; True and Strong (1878) ; Marjory, 

 or the Gift of Peace (1878); Job Singleton's 

 Heir (1878); A Knight of our Own Day, and 

 Other Verses (1879); Framilode Hall, or Honor 

 is Humility (1879); A Chip of the Old Block 

 (1879); The Rochemonts (1879); Ruby and 

 Pearl (1879); Royal Law (1879); Stories of the 

 Cathedral Cities of England (1879); Heather and 

 Harebell (1880); Light in the Lily (1880); The 

 Birth of the Century, or Eighty Years Ago 

 (1880); Memories of Troublous Times (1880); 

 A Rose without Thorns (1880); A Violet in the 

 Shade (1880); Benvenuta (1881); Dewdrops and 

 Diamonds (1881); Dorothy's Daughters (1881); 

 Constantia Carew (1882); The Dayspring: A 

 Story of the Time of William Tyndale (1882) ; The 

 Court and the Cottage (1883) ; In Colston's Days: 

 A Story of Old Bristol (1883); Little and Good 

 (1883); Poppies and Pansies (1883); Sir Valen- 

 tine's Victory (1883); Heathercliff (1884); Mrs. 

 Willoughby's Octave (1884); In the East Coun- 

 try with Sir Thomas Browne (1884) ; My Grand- 

 mother's Pictures (1884); Silver Chimes (1884); 

 The Two Homes (1884) ; Over the Down (1884) ; 

 Cassandra's Casket (1885); Michael's Treasures 

 (1885) ; The Mistress of Tayne Court (1885) ; No. 

 XIII, or the Story of the Lost Vestal (1885); 

 Salome (1885); The Story of the Lost Emerald 

 (1885) ; Under the Mendips (1885) ; A Fight with 

 the Swallow (1886) ; In Four Reigns (1886) ; Life 

 of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1886); Rhoda's Re- 

 ward (1886); The Roses of Kingwood (1886); 

 The Tower on the Cliff (1886); Dandy Jim 

 (1887); Daphne's Decision (1887); Eaglehurst 

 Towers (1887); Mistress Matchett's Mistake 

 (1887); On the Banks of the Ouse (1887); Only 

 a Bunch of Cherries (1887); The Story of John 



Marbeck: A Windsor Organist (1887); Two 

 Swords: A Story of Old Bristol (1887); Alma 

 (1888); Bishop's Cranworth (1888); Bristol Dia- 

 monds (1888); Dulcibel's Day Dreams (1888); 

 Houses on Wheels (1888) ; In the City of Flowers 

 (1888); Oliver's Old Pictures (1888); Our Own 

 Picture Book (1888); The End Crowns All 

 (1889); Laurel Crowns (1889); Under Salisbury 

 Spire (1889); Eventide Light (1890); Shake- 

 speare and his Birthplace (1890); Winifrede's 

 Journal of her Life at Exeter and Norwich (1891) ; 

 In Winchester Meads (1891); Little Queenie 

 (1892); Bristol Bells (1892); In the Service of 

 Rachel, Lady Russell (1892); New Relations 

 (1893); Pat's Inheritance (1893); Penshurst 

 Castle in the Time of Sir Philip Sidney (1893); 

 Nature's Gentlemen (1893) ; The Close of St. Chris- 

 topher's (1894); Kensington Palace in the Days 

 of Queen Mary (1894); Lizette and her Mission 

 (1894) ; The Master of the Musicians (1895) ; The 

 White King's Daughter (1895); Abigail Temple- 

 ton (1896) ; By the North Sea, or The Protector's. 

 Granddaughter (1896) ; An Escape from the Tow- 

 er (1896); Only Susan (1896); Sir Benjamin's. 

 Bounty (1896); Castle Meadow (1897); A Haunt 

 of Ancient Peace (1897); Lady Rosalind (1897); 

 Up and Down the Pantiles (1896) ; The Two Hen- 

 riettas; The First Light on Eddystone; Her Sea- 

 son in Bath; Boscombe Chine; In the Choir of 

 Westminster Abbey (1897); The Lady of Holt 

 Dene; Better Late than Never (1898); Master 

 Martin (1898); Under the Laburnums (1898); 

 and Under the Dome of St. Paul's (1898). 



Lean, Mrs. Florence (Marryat) (Ross- 

 Church), English novelist, born in Brighton, 

 July 9, 1837; died in London, Oct. 27, 1899. She 

 was a daughter of Capt. Frederick Marryat, the 

 English novelist, and first married Col. Ross- 

 Church, a soldier in the East Indian service, with 

 whom she traveled extensively in . India. After 

 his death she became the wife of Col. Francis 

 Lean. From 1872 to 1876 she edited London So- 

 ciety, and a few years later she appeared on the 

 stage in lyric and other roles, achieving her great- 

 est success as Lady Jane in Patience. She was 

 also favorably known as a lecturer and elocu- 

 tionist, and made a tour of the United States in 

 1884 in original monologues. Tom Tiddler's 

 Ground (1886) aims at giving her impressions of 

 America at that time. She was the author of 

 several successful plays, but is best known as a 

 novelist, the entire number of her fictions includ- 

 ing 75 titles. A partial list of her novels and 

 collections of tales comprises Love's Conflict 

 (London, 1865); Too Good for Him (1865); 

 Woman against Woman (1865); For Ever and 

 Ever (1866); Confessions of Gerald Estcourt 

 (1867); Gup: Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life 

 (1868) ; Nelly Brooke (1868) ; Girls of Feversham 

 (1869); Veronique (1869); Petronel (1870); Her 

 Lord and Master (1871); Sybil's Friend (1873); 

 No Intentions (1874); Open Sesame (1875); 

 Fighting the Air (1875); My Own Child (1876); 

 Her Father's Name (1876); Hidden Chains 

 (1876) ; A Harvest of Wild Oats (1877) ; Written 

 in Fire (1878); Little Stephen (1878); The World 

 against a Lie, successfully dramatized in Eng- 

 land and played also in America as Delia (1878) ; 

 The Root of All Evil (1879); The Broken Blos- 

 som (1879); With Cupid's Eyes (1880); Fair- 

 haired Alda (1880); My Sister the Actress 

 (1881); How they Loved Him (1882); Phyllida, 

 (1882) ; A Moment of Madness and Other Stories 

 (1883); Peeress and Player (1883); The Heart 

 of Jane Warner (1885); The Heir Presumptive 

 (1885); The Master Passion (1886); Spider's So- 

 ciety (1886); A Daughter of the Tropics (1887); 



