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[[File:AnneBeale.tiff|thumb|Anne Beale (1816-1900), as depicted in a 1901 issue of ''Girls' Own Paper'']]
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'''Anne Beale''' ([[1816 in Wales|1816]] – 17 April [[1900 in Wales|1900]]) was a popular English novelist and poet, based in Wales. Her poetry, novels, and stories appeared in print for more than fifty years during her lifetime, "an unusually long career as an author".<ref name="Aaron">Jane Aaron, [https://books.google.com/books?id=h0iuBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA123&ots=GjMh4TJOlA&dq=Anne%20Beale%20governess%20Llandeilo&pg=PA123#v=onepage ''Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity''] (University of Wales Press 2010): 123-124. ISBN 9780708322871</ref>
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'''Anne Beale''' ([[1816 in Wales|1816]] – 19 September [[1900 in Wales|1900]]) was a popular [[Wales|Welsh]] novelist and poet.


==Biography==
She was born in Somerset<ref>[https://readingwales.wordpress.com/tag/anne-beale/ Reading Wales - Uncovering 19th Century Welsh Writers in English]. Accessed 12 July 2014</ref> but lived at [[Llandeilo]] in [[Carmarthenshire]] from 1841, until she moved to London, where she died at 68 Belsize Road, [[South Hampstead]]. As well as her girls' stories and a volume of poetry, she contributed Welsh interest articles to English magazines.
Anne Beale was born at [[Langport]], Somerset<ref>[https://readingwales.wordpress.com/tag/anne-beale/ Reading Wales - Uncovering 19th Century Welsh Writers in English]. Accessed 12 July 2014</ref>. She was educated at Bath by "Madame de Bellecour." Her older sister Elizabeth Compton Beale was a singer by training.<ref>[http://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/GOP/People/1901-AnneBeale.pdf "Anne Beale, Governess and Writer: Extracts from her Diary"] ''Girls' Own Paper'' (1901): 4-6.</ref>


Beale lived near [[Llandeilo]] in [[Carmarthenshire]] from 1841,<ref name="Williams">William Williams, [http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-BEAL-ANN-1816.html "Anne Beale"] ''Dictionary of Welsh Biography'' (National Library of Wales 2009).</ref> at first working as a governess for the family of an Anglican clergyman. Her income from writing eventually allowed her to make it her full-time profession, instead of being a supplement to her teaching income.<ref name="Aaron" /> Late in life she moved to London, where she died at 68 Belsize Road, [[South Hampstead]], in April 1900.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4869094/death_of_anne_beale_1900/ "Death of Anne Beale"] ''Winnipeg Tribune'' (21 April 1900): 1. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref> As well as her girls' stories and a volume of poetry, she contributed Welsh-interest articles and poems to English and Scottish magazines.<ref name="Williams" />
==Works==

*''Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry'' (1849)
==Reception==
Her depictions of Wales and the Welsh were admired for their sympathy and attention to detail; said one Welsh newspaper in 1869, "She knows the country well, and her descriptions of its scenery, its institutions, its people are severely truthful but, at the same time, so skilfully done, and with so much warmth and character as to captivate every person who cares to read one of the best and ablest novels of the season."<ref>[http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4354189/4354195/27/Anne%20Beale "Country Courtships: A New Novel by Miss Beale of Llandilo"] ''The Welshman'' (22 October 1869): 6.</ref> Years later, however, an American reviewer called Beale's novel ''Simplicity and Fascination'' "old-fashioned... bulky, verbose, full of stilted dialogue and verbose explanations."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4869166/brief_review_of_anne_beale_simplicity/ Brief review of Anne Beale, ''Simplicity and Fascination''], in ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (April 30, 1893): 6. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref>

==Selected works==
*''Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry'' (1849)<ref>Anne Beale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HB8GAAAAQAAJ ''Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry''] (George Routledge 1849).</ref>
*''The Baronet's Family'' (1852)<ref>Anne Beale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NbcBAAAAQAAJ ''The Baronet's Family''] (Thomas Cautley Newby, 1852, in 3 vol.)</ref>
*''Simplicity and Fascination'' (1855)<ref>Anne Beale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=d7cBAAAAQAAJ ''Simplicity and Fascination''] (R. Bentley 1855, in 3 vol.)</ref>
*''Gladys the Reaper'' (1860)<ref>Anne Beale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OtEBAAAAQAAJ ''Gladys the Reaper''] (R. Bentley 1860, in 3 vol.)</ref>
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*''Nothing Venture, Nothing Have'' (1864)
*''Rose Mervyn of Whitelake'' (1879)
*''Rose Mervyn of Whitelake'' (1879)
*''The Queen O'the May'' (1881)
*''The Queen O'the May'' (1881)
*''The Pennant Family'' (1885)<ref>Anne Beale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ewwGAAAAQAAJ ''The Pennant Family''] (Hodder & Stoughton 1885).</ref>
*''Gladys the Reaper'' (1881)
*''Courtleroy'' (1887)<ref>Anne Beale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=92UUAAAAQAAJ ''Courtleroy''] (Hurst & Blackett 1887, in 3 vol.).</ref>
*''Old Gwen'' (1888)
*''Old Gwen'' (1888)
*''Charlie is My Darling'' (1891)
*''Charlie is My Darling'' (1891)
*''Seven Years for Rachel''
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*''Nothing Venture, Nothing Have'' (1864)


''Gladys of Harlech'' (1858) and ''Country Landlords''(1860) are both attributed to Anne Beale, but the title page of the original edition gives the author's name as "L.M.S", and the true author is believed to be L. M. Spooner.<ref>[http://victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1199 At the Circulating Library: a Database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901]</ref>
''Gladys of Harlech'' (1858) and ''Country Landlords''(1860) are both attributed to Anne Beale, but the title page of the original edition gives the author's name as "L.M.S", and the true author is believed to be L. M. Spooner.<ref>[http://victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1199 At the Circulating Library: a Database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901]</ref>

==Sources==
*[http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-BEAL-ANN-1816.html Welsh Biography Online]


==References==
==References==
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Anne Beale (1816-1900), as depicted in a 1901 issue of Girls' Own Paper

Anne Beale (1816 – 17 April 1900) was a popular English novelist and poet, based in Wales. Her poetry, novels, and stories appeared in print for more than fifty years during her lifetime, "an unusually long career as an author".[1]

Biography

Anne Beale was born at Langport, Somerset[2]. She was educated at Bath by "Madame de Bellecour." Her older sister Elizabeth Compton Beale was a singer by training.[3]

Beale lived near Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire from 1841,[4] at first working as a governess for the family of an Anglican clergyman. Her income from writing eventually allowed her to make it her full-time profession, instead of being a supplement to her teaching income.[1] Late in life she moved to London, where she died at 68 Belsize Road, South Hampstead, in April 1900.[5] As well as her girls' stories and a volume of poetry, she contributed Welsh-interest articles and poems to English and Scottish magazines.[4]

Reception

Her depictions of Wales and the Welsh were admired for their sympathy and attention to detail; said one Welsh newspaper in 1869, "She knows the country well, and her descriptions of its scenery, its institutions, its people are severely truthful but, at the same time, so skilfully done, and with so much warmth and character as to captivate every person who cares to read one of the best and ablest novels of the season."[6] Years later, however, an American reviewer called Beale's novel Simplicity and Fascination "old-fashioned... bulky, verbose, full of stilted dialogue and verbose explanations."[7]

Selected works

  • Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry (1849)[8]
  • The Baronet's Family (1852)[9]
  • Simplicity and Fascination (1855)[10]
  • Gladys the Reaper (1860)[11]
  • Nothing Venture, Nothing Have (1864)
  • Rose Mervyn of Whitelake (1879)
  • The Queen O'the May (1881)
  • The Pennant Family (1885)[12]
  • Courtleroy (1887)[13]
  • Old Gwen (1888)
  • Charlie is My Darling (1891)

Gladys of Harlech (1858) and Country Landlords(1860) are both attributed to Anne Beale, but the title page of the original edition gives the author's name as "L.M.S", and the true author is believed to be L. M. Spooner.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b Jane Aaron, Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (University of Wales Press 2010): 123-124. ISBN 9780708322871
  2. ^ Reading Wales - Uncovering 19th Century Welsh Writers in English. Accessed 12 July 2014
  3. ^ "Anne Beale, Governess and Writer: Extracts from her Diary" Girls' Own Paper (1901): 4-6.
  4. ^ a b William Williams, "Anne Beale" Dictionary of Welsh Biography (National Library of Wales 2009).
  5. ^ "Death of Anne Beale" Winnipeg Tribune (21 April 1900): 1. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  6. ^ "Country Courtships: A New Novel by Miss Beale of Llandilo" The Welshman (22 October 1869): 6.
  7. ^ Brief review of Anne Beale, Simplicity and Fascination, in San Francisco Chronicle (April 30, 1893): 6. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  8. ^ Anne Beale, Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry (George Routledge 1849).
  9. ^ Anne Beale, The Baronet's Family (Thomas Cautley Newby, 1852, in 3 vol.)
  10. ^ Anne Beale, Simplicity and Fascination (R. Bentley 1855, in 3 vol.)
  11. ^ Anne Beale, Gladys the Reaper (R. Bentley 1860, in 3 vol.)
  12. ^ Anne Beale, The Pennant Family (Hodder & Stoughton 1885).
  13. ^ Anne Beale, Courtleroy (Hurst & Blackett 1887, in 3 vol.).
  14. ^ At the Circulating Library: a Database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901
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