Felicia Skene

The Inheritance of Evil; Or, the Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister (Dodo Press) Felicia Skene

Felicia Mary Frances Skene (1821-1899), also known as Oxoniensis, was a Scottish author, philanthropist and prison reformer in the Victorian era. She used the pseudonym Erskine Moir. She was a friend of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). Her works include: The Isles of Greece and Other Poems (1843), The Lesters (1847), Wayfaring Sketches (1847), The Inheritance of Evil; or, The Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister (1849), The Tutor's Ward (2v/1851), The Divine Master (1852), Penitentiaries and Reformatories (1865), The Shadow of the Holy Week (1883), Scenes from a Silent World; or, Prisons and Their Inmates (1889) and A Test of the Truth (1897).