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Grace Darling

by Eva Hope

Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands is a biographical work of Grace H. Darling. Grace Horsley Darling was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of her crew were saved.