![]() ![]() ![]() Her first published book was Broken Barriers (1889) and she produced around three or four volumes per year, mostly marketed as 'books for girls', and she continued to write until the end with her last book The Triumphs of Three being published posthumously in 1942. ![]() However, she differed from Henty in that in many of her novels the lead characters in her books were very often female, although she did write books with male heroes. She was so good at the genre that she was at one time called 'the female Henty'. ![]() She began her literary career in the 1880s and, perhaps not surprisingly, wrote in the style of the Victorian adventure novel. She is reputed to have written over 150 adventure novels, many of which were set in exotic places (vide Among the Torches of the Andes (1898)) although she never left England. the couple lived in Charlebury in Oxfordshire and had one daughter. She married Jabez Ambrose Comfort, a clergyman in 1889 and became Mrs J A Comfort. She preferred to be known as Bessie and moved to London in her early 20s when she taught at a Baptist School. the couple lived in Charlebury in Oxfordshire and had one. Elizabeth Marchant was born in Petham in Kent in 1862 and attended the local primary school. Elizabeth Marchant was born in Petham in Kent in 1862 and attended the local primary school. ![]()
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