Name Martha Freer Role Writer | Died 1888 | |
Books Elizabeth de Valois - Queen of, Elizabeth de Valois - Queen of, The Life of Marguerite D'Angoul, The Regency of Anne of A, The Life of Marguerite D'Angoul | ||
Martha Walker Freer (1822–1888) was an English writer on French history. She was the daughter of John Booth Freer, M.D. and Martha, daughter of Sir William Walker of Leicestershire, and was born in Leicester. In 1861 she married the Rev. John Robinson, rector of Widmerpool, near Nottingham and became Martha Walker Robinson, but she continued to write under her maiden name. She died on 14 July 1888.
Works
Her first book, Life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, Duchesse d'Alençon, and De Berry, Sister of Francis I, appeared in 1854, in two volumes. She continued publishing books dealing with French history until 1866. Her works rivalled those of Julia Pardoe on similar subjects, and were popular. Two of them, Marguerite d'Angoulême and Jeanne d'Albret (1855), reached second editions.
Freer's other works were: