Cecilia Frances Trollope Tilley was a British novelist. She was the daughter of novelist Fanny Trollope and the sister of novelist Anthony Trollope.
Occupation
novelist
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
1816
Died
1849, 1845, April 4, 1849
Overview
Cecilia Frances Trollope Tilley (1816 – 4 April 1849) was a British novelist. She was the daughter of novelist Fanny Trollope and the sister of novelist Anthony Trollope.
Cecilia Trollope was one of seven children of Fanny Trollope and her husband, barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope. In 1839, she married John Tilley, a friend of her brother Anthony who later became Secretary to the General Post Office of the United Kingdom. They had five children.
Cecilia Tilley published a single book under the pseudonym "By a Lady", the high church novel Chollerton: A Tale of Our Own Times (1846).
Cecilia Tilley died of tuberculosis on 4 April 1849 in Kensington.
