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Theodora Elizabeth Lynch|1812|1886| Theodora Elizabeth Lynch (born 1812 died 1886), poetical and prose writer. daughter of Arthur Foulks by his wife, Mary Ann McKenzie, was born at Dale Park, Sussex, in 1813. Her fatherwaa a Jamaica sugar-planter, and on his plantation, the Lodge estate in the parish of St. Dorothy, Jamaica, she was married on 28 December 1835 to Henry Mark Lynch, second son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica. Her husband, born in Kingston on 29 October 1814, was admitted a student of the Middle Temple 31 May 1837, and was called to the bar 12 June 1840, He practised his profession in Jamaica, and was nominated one of the Judges there, but died of yellow fever at Kingston on 15 July 1845, and was buried at Halfway Free Church, St, Andrews, on 16 July. After her husband's death Mrs. Lynch returned to England and devoted herself to writing works of fiction. Her books, the scenes of which are often laid in the West Indies, are mostly intended for young people. She died at 81 St. John's Wood Terrace, London, 37 June 1885, aged 75.

Her published works were: 1. 'Lays of the Sea, and other Poems. By Personne'. i.e. T.E. Lynch, 1846; 2nd edition 1850. 2. 'The Cotton Tree, or Emily, the little West Indian', 1847 ; another edit. 1853. 3. 'The Family Sepulchre, a Tale of Jamaica', 1848. 4. 'Maude Effingham, a Tale of Jamaica', 1849. 5. 'Stories from the Acts of the Apostles', 1850. 6. 'The Little Teacher', 2nd edition 1851. 7. 'The Mountain Pastor', 1852. 8. 'Millie Howard, or Trust in God', 1864. 9. 'The Red Brick House', 1866. 10. 'The Wonders of the West Indies', 1866. 11. 'The Story of my Girlhood', 1657. 12. 'The Exodus of the Children of Israel, and their Wanderings in the Desert', 1857. 13. 'The Story of the Patriarchs', 1860. 14. 'Son of the Evening Land, and other Poems', 1861. 15. 'Rose and her Mission, a Tale of the West Indies', 1863. 16. 'The Sabbaths of the Year, hymns for Children', 1864. 17. 'Years Ago, a Tale of West Indian Domestic Life of the Eighteenth Century', 1865.

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