Surname: Kortright Forename(s): Frances Isabella Staveley Berkeley Wood b. 28 January 1821. d. 31 October 1900. Nationality: English.
Novelist, poet, and editor. Alternative signature: “B. Aikin.” Born in London. Worked
as a governess for various families around the United Kingdom. Contributed to Family Herald. Opened a school in her home with her sisters for local and Anglo-Indian children.
Editor of Court Suburb Magazine (1868–1870). Founded a Sunday School for poor children and was a secretary at a school
for working-class girls. Author of the anti-suffragist pamphlet Pro Aris et Focis: The True Rights of Women (1869). Never married. Acquainted with Samuel Carter Hall and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)