Lucy Bethia Walford was a Scottish novelist and artist, who wrote 45 books, the majority of them "light-hearted domestic comedies.".
Background
Lucy Colquhoun was born on 17 April 1845 at Portobello, a seaside resort near Edinburgh, the seventh child of John Colquhoun (1805–1885) of Luss, Dunbartonshire, author of The Moor and the Loch, and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland (1813–1877), a poet and hymn writer
Education
Lucy Colquhoun was educated privately by German governesses.
Career
Her reading included works by Charlotte Yonge and Susan Ferrier, and in later years Jane Austen. The family moved into Edinburgh in 1855, where guests included the artist Noël Paton, who encouraged her to take up painting. In 1868 and several succeeding years she exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy.
Her first short piece of writing appeared in the Sunday Magazine in May 1869.