Forge and Furnace (Esprios Classics)

Florence Warden (16 May 1857 - 11 May 1929) was an English actress and writer who wrote many novels under her stage name her name at birth being Florence Alice Price and her married name Mrs G. E. James. Warden began life as Florence Alice Price the daughter of a stockbroker. Born in Hanworth Middlesex she was educated in Brighton and France. In 1877 her first novel The Wolf at the Door was published anonymously in Boston Massachusetts. From 1880 to 1885 Warden pursued a career as an actress while she also published stories and novels under her stage name. In 1885 her mystery novel The House on the Marsh (1884) was turned into a play in which she played the lead.