Born into a family of powerful colonial administrators, Frances "Fanny" Wood Musgrave (1850-1947) spent her first years on the island of Antigua where her grandfather and great-grandfather held public office. Her uncle, Sir Anthony Musgrave, served terms as governor of Newfoundland, British Columbia, Jamaica, and Queensland, Australia. Her father was a scholar noted for his eloquence as a preacher; her mother was an accomplished musician. After a few years in Scotland and England, Frances's family moved to Nova Scotia where she was educated by private tutors. She spent time in Jamaica, where she and her sister ran a private school. She also managed a farm, but her mission in life was the dissemination of reform ideas: temperance, suffrage and hygiene through her lectures and articles. As with her father, whose theological quest brought him to a variety of denominations throughout his career, Frances was attracted to unusual doctrines. Her novel GABRIELLE AMETHYST (1908) demonstrates her belief in the reforming power of Universalism. Other titles, GYPSY, A RAY OF LIGHT, and TRUE TO THE LAST, remain unverified and may be magazine stories or serials rather than books.
See: http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-941/musgrave-fanny-wood
See: http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-941/musgrave-fanny-wood
Born into a family of powerful colonial administrators, Frances "Fanny" Wood Musgrave (1850-1947) spent her first years on the island of Antigua where her grandfather and great-grandfather held public office. Her uncle, Sir Anthony Musgrave, served terms as governor of Newfoundland, British Columbia, Jamaica, and Queensland, Australia. Her father was a scholar noted for his eloquence as a preacher; her mother was an accomplished musician. After a few years in Scotland and England, Frances's family moved to Nova Scotia where she was educated by private tutors. She spent time in Jamaica, where she and her sister ran a private school. She also managed a farm, but her mission in life was the dissemination of reform ideas: temperance, suffrage and hygiene through her lectures and articles. As with her father, whose theological quest brought him to a variety of denominations throughout his career, Frances was attracted to unusual doctrines. Her novel GABRIELLE AMETHYST (1908) demonstrates her belief in the reforming power of Universalism. Other titles, GYPSY, A RAY OF LIGHT, and TRUE TO THE LAST, remain unverified and may be magazine stories or serials rather than books.
See: http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-941/musgrave-fanny-wood
See: http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-941/musgrave-fanny-wood
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