[née Wood]. British authoress, born in 1818, at Sheffield, England. Her literary talents were manifest at an early age; in 1841 she removed to London and began her Lives of the Princesses of England (6 vols., 1849–55), from documents in the British Museum and private libraries. She edited Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies (1846); The Diary of John Rous (1856); Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria (1857). By appointment of the Master of the Rolls, she calendared the papers of the reigns of James I. and Charles II. (11 vols., 1857–68). She completed the same task for the state papers of Queen Elizabeth (6 vols., 1869–74), and did a great deal more work of a similar nature, thus furnishing invaluable sources of information for the historian and student. G. P. Green, her husband, was a noted painter.
