SLAYER SLAIN'S AUTHOR

The slayer slain is a novel in serial form , was one of the articles that found  place in the first issues of the vidhya sangrah (cms college magazine) .The novel was written by Frances Wright Collins , wife of Rev.Richard Collins.Very little is known about Frances Wright expect that she accompanied her young husband to tropical India in order to take her place as wife of a missionary.She was not of a robust constitution and the heat and rain of Travancore didn't agree with her.

Trough she tried to carry out her duties of teaching and managing the household to the best of her ability she could not hold out for long.She was taken to the relatively cooler area of Coonoor where she took her last breathe in 1862. A plaque to her memory was erected by a grateful people and is to be found in the chapel of the CMS college Kottayam, Kerala,India.Apart from this she remains a shadowy figure about whom nothing very substantial is known apart from the slim novel that she wrote The Slayer Slain.

The introductory note at the beginning of the novel speaks of it having come "from the pen of lady who has since gone to her rest". However the style of the novel in the last last chapters is different and so it can be safely concluded that the novel was completed by the Rev.Collins because death had claimed Frances before she could complete her work of art.

The slayer slain and its author Frances have long been wrapped up in the mists of oblivion , pushed into the margins of memory. Though published in serial form in the early sixties of the nineteenth century  , neither the author nor her work has got the recognition they deserved. The missionaries of the church referred to Frances as merely as the wife of their missionary. Not a word of acclaim has been accorded to this lady for her crafting of this novel with its emphasis on the simple and the commonplace along with matters of weight and significance.

On the other hand merely referring to her as Mrs.Collins has created and perpetuated the mistaken belief that the novel was written by Frances Sarah Collins whom Rev.Collins married after the untimely demise of France Wright. It was her husband ,who no doubt ,encouraged her impressions of central Travancore into papers. He also had the tenderness to finish her novel and to publish it.Though their is a marked difference in the perception of husband and wife ,the fact remains that this work would never have been the light of day If Rev.Collins had ignored it.

See this is the beauty of love and respect that everyone need to show to everyone in their life.Love comes from care , respect, protection and dedication to one another which can be seen fading in today's world. I think you guyz have understood how important is the place of a special person especially women in our world without them the world won't go on.........................