Florence Marryat

Florence Marryat was an English author and actress and the daughter of the author Captain Frederick Marryat, best known for her sensational novels and her involvement with several spiritual mediums of the late nineteenth century. Her books include Love's Conflict, Her Father's Name, There Is No Death and The Dead Man's Message, along with The Blood of the Vampire, a horror novel. Between 1876 and 1890 she performed on stage, from a comic piano sketch to comic opera with a D'Oyly Carte company, and during the 1890s she ran a school of journalism and literary art.