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Elizabeth Caroline Grey
Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1798–1869), aka Mrs. Colonel Grey or Mrs. Grey, was a prolific English author〔(Elizabeth Caroline Grey ) from ''At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901''〕 of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation fiction and Penny Dreadfuls, active between the 1820s and 1867. There is some controversy about the details of her life story, and if she actually authored any penny dreadfuls.〔
==Biography==
Commenting on her literary reputation in 1859, American critic Samuel Austin Allibone said Grey "has fairly earned a title to be ranked as one of the most popular novelists of the day."〔Samuel Austin Allibone. (''A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century. Containing thirty thousand biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects'' ). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & co. (), 1859–71.〕 That reputation has not lasted, her life and body of work today are fairly obscure outside of a few specialised fields of study such as Victorian literature and vampire literature. Grey is probably most often remembered today as being the first woman to write and publish a vampire story; one of her earliest stories, ''The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress'', it was first published in 1828 in the weekly paper ''The Casket''.〔Peter Haining. ''The Vampire Omnibus''. Orion mass market paperback (17 July 1995). ISBN 978-1-85797-684-7〕〔(Female Vampires in Literature ), last accessed May 2009. 〕
Elizabeth's maiden name was Duncan and she was the niece of "Miss Duncan", a famous actress of the late 18th century.〔 Elizabeth married "Colonel Grey",〔 a reporter for the ''Morning Chronicle'', about whom very little else is known.〔(''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'' ), John Sutherland, 1989, ISBN 978-0-8047-1842-4〕 Elizabeth Grey worked at a London school for girls. In her spare time wrote silver fork novels,〔 such as ''Sybil Lennard'' (1846), about a Swiss orphan who rises to become a governess in England; it has been described by John Sutherland as resembling the fiction of the Brontë sisters.〔 She also wrote penny dreadfuls such as ''Murder Will Out'' (1860) and ''The Iron Mask'' (1847).〔 Grey's ability to write both "proper" fiction for polite society, and sensational Gothic and penny dreadfuls (some of which were initially published anonymously), earned her a broad audience in her day.
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