Montgomery

Montgomery, FLORENCE SOPHIA, a popular writer of books for children, is the daughter of Sir Alexander Leslie Montgomery, Bart., of The Hall, County Donegal. Her first book, A Very Simple Story (1867), was warmly praised by Whyte-Melville. Of its successors the chief are the widely popular but not entirely satisfactory Misunderstood (1869), Thrown Together (1872), The Town Crier (1874), Seaforth (1878), Peggy, and other Tales (1880), and The Blue Veil (1883).