Fanny Price-Gwynne (1819-1901) was a Welsh novelist, artist, composer, poet and philanthropist. She was a prominent figure in Victorian society born in the Pembrokeshire town of Tenby. Ever since her childhood, Fanny had a love of the sea, largely because her father was a Royal Navy master and a trustee of the Tenby charities. He also served the management of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and put the first tide tables in the Tenby Observer newspaper. Her mother worked as the local correspondent for the Carmarthen Journal newspaper, and therefore likely encouraged her daughter to take up writing herself.