The boards and spine strip are lightly faded, the front hinge exposed, though still tight and the preliminaries and end pages foxed. There is no publishing date, eraly 1900s. Henrietta Matilda Jane Evans (née Congreve) (7 August 1827 - 22 October 1886) was an Australian novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc. She is not listed by Marcie Muir: " Though the many works by this author were widely read by girls in the late nineteenth century....(they were) orginally published as adult romances"