Eliza Warren née Jervis (1810–1900) was an English writer on needlework and household management, and editor of the Ladies' Treasury magazine. She was best-known professionally by the pen-name Mrs. Warren, but after a second marriage was also known as Eliza Francis and Eliza Warren Francis. Writing and editing Her first books, in the later 1840s, were collections of crochet patterns for clothing and decorative items for the home. She created over 50 illustrated fancy needlework designs for the short-lived Drawing-room Magazine, with associated lessons offered in a London showroom, and contributed patterns to Family Friend. The Drawing-room Magazine, which she probably edited herself, contained fiction, poetry and informative articles, as did her later magazine Timethrift, which survived for just six issues. Books like Cookery for Maids of All Work and Comfort for Small Incomes offered advice on the management of modest middle-class homes. Warren began to write on these household subjects in the 1850s. Sometimes her work was presented as the "autobiographical" story of a fictional character, even when clearly labelled on the title page as "by Mrs. Warren": for instance, How I Managed my Children from Infancy to Marriage. Like How I Managed on £200 a Year, this book used the character of an experienced housekeeper to give advice to a novice: a dialogue format used in evangelical literature of the period. In 1857 Warren became editor of the Ladies’ Treasury, a new magazine which described itself as an "illustrated magazine of entertaining literature, education, fine art, domestic economy, needlework, and fashion". The publication was "handsomely printed on good paper" and ran successfully for nearly 40 years. Mrs. Warren's name helped promote the needlework articles, and it was also on a column called Cookery for All Incomes. She is presumed to have also written other pieces signed with various combinations of her names and initials. Warren Francis was a "masculine" byline for articles about history, geography and other non-domestic subjects. The Ladies’ Treasury was popular and well received at the time. The Civil Service Gazette even called it "the best of all the magazines designed for the use of ladies". Its main competitor was the Beetons' Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, and one of Mrs. Beeton's recent biographers has suggested the Ladies’ Treasury was an inferior "copycat". Others disagree and have called Eliza Warren "remarkably prolific and enterprising". The two writers may have been aiming at somewhat different markets. Eliza Warren's