Frances Vernon
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1 December 1963
Frances Vernon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Georgina Frances Vernon 1 December 1963 |
| Died | 11 July 1991 (aged 27) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
Frances Vernon (1 December 1963 – 11 July 1991) was a British novelist. She was the daughter of the tenth Baron Vernon.[1]
Vernon was encouraged in her writing by her first cousin, the photographer and author Michael Marten. She wrote her first novel Privileged Children (1982) at the age of sixteen.[2] It won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.[3] She studied briefly at New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) but soon left to continue her writing.[4] She produced five more novels: Gentlemen and Players (1984), The Bohemian Girl (1985), A Desirable Husband (1987), The Marquis of Westmarch (1989) and finally The Fall of Doctor Onslow (1994), which was published three years after her death.[5] Lucasta Miller for the Independent described it as "both a tragic reminder of what she might have gone on to do, and a testimony to what she did achieve".[6]
