Slater, Frances Charlotte (1892–1947)
Slater, Frances Charlotte (1892–1947)
South African novelist. Name variations: (pseudonym) F. Bancroft or Francis Bancroft. Born 1892 on the family farm in the Eastern Cape, South Africa; died 1947.
Lived in England for some time but returned to Eastern Cape and worked as journalist and novelist; works, which focus on women's suffrage, Temperance movement, gender issues, problems faced by Dutch and English settlers, and Anglo-Boer War, include Of Like Passions (1907), The Veldt Dwellers (1912), Thane Brandon (1913), The Settler's Eldest Daughter (1920), The Brandons (1928), Love's Bondage (1929), The Sure Years (1931), and Green Youth (1933).
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