Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and prolific novelist. Pseudonyms: Mrs Forrester, E. F. Forrester. Née Sanford. Born in London. Married twice: in 1862 to John Jerdein (d. 1867), and in 1870 to Col. Edward Smith Bridges of Brickworth Park. Author of several prose contributions in Temple Bar and twenty-one novels and short story collections. Biographical information: Wellesley Index, At the Circulating Library. (AC)