Florence Alice Price, Mrs. James (1857-1929), who wrote under the pseudonym Florence Warden, was a prolific British author and actress. She wrote over a hundred novels and short stories, especially romances. She is perhaps best known for her novel The House on the Marsh (1882). Other works include: At the World’s Mercy (1884), A Vagrant Wife (1885), A Prince of Darkness (1887), A Witch of the Hills (1888), St. Cuthbert’s Tower (1889), Those Westerton Girls (1891), Pretty Miss Smith (1891), My Child and I: A Woman’s Story (1894), Adela’s Ordeal (1894), Kitty’s Engagement (1895), The Wharf by the Docks (1896), Joan the Curate (1898), The Master-Key (1898), The Secret of Lynndale (1899), The Plain Miss Cray (1900), Lady Joan’s Companion (1902), The Heart of a Girl (1903), An Impossible Husband (1904), The Lady in Black (1906), Love and Lordship (1906), The Baronet’s Wife (1908), A Devil’s Bargain (1908), The Veiled Lady (1909), The Mill House Mystery (1911), From Stage to Peerage (her autobiography) (1911), The Fight For a Soul (1912), A Mystery of the Thames (1913), The Price of Silence (1916), The Harlingham Case (1918), The Grey Moth (1920), The Lady in Furs (1922) and The Precipice (1924). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.