Florence Ethel Mills Young was an English writer of popular fiction. Young was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, United Kingdom, in 1875 and wrote 50 books between 1910 and 1941. Her early works frequently featured the English in southern Africa. Her novel, Myles Calthrope I. D. B., was adapted into the film Thou Art the Man in 1920. A Mistaken Marriage (1908), like many stories about South Africa at the time, features severely negative Jewish characters involved in illegal diamond selling. The heroine describes the main character as having the "ugliest smile she had ever seen distort a human face." The Spectator noted the publication of The Purple Mists in 1914, commenting that it contains "a strong, silent man" and adds: "Miss Young writes with remarkable fluency and has a strong grip of the plot." At least one of her works has been translated into German.
