Adeline Sergeant
| Adeline Sergeant | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 July 1851 Ashbourne, Derbyshire |
| Died | 4 December 1904 Bournemouth, Dorset |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Writer |
Adeline Sergeant (4 July 1851 – 4 December 1904) was an English writer.
Born Emily Frances Adeline Sergeant at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the second daughter of Richard Sergeant and Jane (Hall),[1] she was home schooled until the age of thirteen, when she attended school in Weston-super-Mare. At fifteen a collection of her poems were published in a volume that received positive notice in Weslayan periodicals. She won a scholarship to attend Queen's College, London. Her father died in 1870, and for several years she became a governess at Riverhead, Kent.[2]
In 1882, her novel Jacobi's wife resulted in a small award of £100,[1] and the work was published serially in London. For the next several years he writings were serialized in the Dundee newspaper, where she lived from 1885-7. Adeline then moved to Bloomsbury, London, where she earned enough keep to support herself through her writings.[2] Over her literary career, she produced over ninety novels; with some involving a religious theme. Her religious views evolved over time, including a period in the 1880s when she was briefly agnostic.[1] She frequently traveled abroad, making trips to Egypt and Palestine. In 1901 she moved to Bournemouth, where she died in 1904.[2]
Bibliography[edit]
- Beyond recall[2] (1882)
- Jacobi's wife[2] (1882)
- An open foe. A romance[3] (1884)
- No saint[2] (1886)
- Roy's repentance; a novel[3] (1888)
- Seventy times seven: a novel[3] (1888)
- A life sentence: a novel[3] (1889)
- The luck of the house: a novel (1889)
- Esther Denison[2] (1889)
- Name and fame: a novel[3] (1890)
- A true friend: a novel[3] (1890)
- Brooke's daughter: a novel[3] (1891)
- Christine; a novel[3] (1892)
- The story of a penitent soul[2] (1892)
- Under false pretenses[2] (1892)
- In Vallombrosa[2] (1894)
- The surrender of Margaret Bellarmine. A fragment (1894)
- The mistress of Quest; a novel[3] (1895)
- Out of due season : a mezzotint[3] (1895)
- The failure of Sibyl Fletcher: a novel[3] (1896)
- The idol maker[2] (1897)
- The Lady Charlotte: a novel[3] (1897)
- Margaret Wynne[3] (1898)
- The story of Phil Enerby[2] (1898)
- A rise in the world; a novel[3] (1900)
- My lady's diamonds[3] (1901)
- This body of death[2] (1901)
- Daunay's tower : a novel[3] (1901)
- A soul apart[2] (1902)
- Anthea's way[2] (1903)
- Beneath the veil[2] (1903)
- The passion of Paul Marillier[3] (1908), posthumous
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Sutherland, John (1990), The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, pp. 564–565, ISBN 0804718423.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Lee, Sidney (1912), Dictionary of National Biography: Second Supplement 3, Macmillan, pp. 291–292.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Browsing Authors With Titles: Sergeant, Adeline", The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvannia), retrieved 2013-02-26.
