Matilda Betham-Edwards

English novelist, travel writer, poet and children's writer (1836-1919).

Born March 4th, 1836 in Suffolk. [ref]

Died January 4th, 1919 at 82 years old in Hastings. [ref]

Occupations
novelist, poet, writer

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon