Elizabeth Frances Dagley (1788–1853), sometimes publishing under her initials as E. F. D., was an English writer of children's literature in the Regency Era. She published four books.
Biography Dagley was the daughter of the artist and educator Richard Dagley.L.A. Fagan, "Dagley, Richard (1761–1841)", revised by Katherine Coombs. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press, 2002. Her writing, although for children, "articulates the problems and misery of economic insecurity".Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 146-148.
Dagley died in 1833.
Published works Fairy Favours, and other tales. 1825. The Birthday, and other tales. 1828. The Village Nightingale: with other tales. 1829. The Young Seer or, Early Searches into Futurity. 1834.
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