Theodora Elizabeth Lynch

Theodora Elizabeth Lynch (born Foulks; 1812–1886) was an English poet and novelist of the 19th century.

Theodora Elizabeth Lynch was the daughter of Arthur Foulks by his wife, Mary Ann McKenzie, and was born at Dale Park, Madehurst, Sussex, in 1812. Her father was a Jamaica sugar-planter, and he owned over 400 slaves on his plantation, the Lodge estate in the parish of, what is now, Saint Catherine in Jamaica.

Lynch was married on 28 December 1835 to Henry Mark Lynch, second son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica. Her husband, born in Kingston on 29 October 1814, was admitted a student of the Middle Temple 31 May 1837, and was called to the bar 12 June 1840, He practised his profession in Jamaica, and was nominated one of the judges there, but died of yellow fever at Kingston on 15 July 1845, and was buried at Halfway Free Church, Saint Andrew Parish, on 16 July.

After her husband's death Mrs. Lynch returned to England and devoted herself to writing works of fiction. Her books, the scenes of which are often laid in the West Indies, are mostly intended for young people. She died at 81 St. John's Wood Terrace, London, 37 June 1885, aged 75.

Her published works were:

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