Angela Brazil was born in 1868 in Lancashire, England. Angela was a keen writer from an early age, producing a magazine at age ten, and ultimately publishing more than 60 books between 1900 and 1946. Angela never married and had no children of her own, but she became popular and influential in Coventry, where she settled in her forties. She was also an active philanthropist and conservationist. Angela Brazil died in 1947 at the age of 78.