Sarah Doudney

Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) was an English writer born near Portsmouth who published her first poem at fifteen and went on to produce some forty novels and story collections, most of them for girls and young women, as well as a quantity of verse and hymns. Monksbury College, Under False Colours and A Woman's Glory were among her popular books, and her stories appeared regularly in The Leisure Hour, the Girl's Own Paper and Good Words. Her hymn The Christian's Good-night was sung at the funeral of the preacher Charles Spurgeon. She lived most of her life in Hampshire and continued writing into old age.