Adeline Sergeant
Adeline Sergeant | |
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| Born | 4 July 1851 |
| Died | 4 December 1904 (aged 53) |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Writer |
Adeline Sergeant (4 July 1851 – 4 December 1904) was an English writer.
Life
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. Her mother was a writer of stories for youngsters that were published under the pen name 'Adeline'; Emily later adopted this name for her own writings.[2] At fifteen a collection of Emily's 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.[3]
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 her 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.[3] In the late 1880s she developed an interest in Fabianism and the plight of the poor in London.[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] Finally, she converted to Catholicism at the end of the century. Emily served as literary adviser to the publishing company R. Bentley & Sons.[2] She frequently traveled abroad, making trips to Egypt and Palestine. In 1901 she moved to Bournemouth, where she died in 1904.[3]
Bibliography
- Beyond recall[3] (1882)
- Jacobi's wife[3] (1882)
- An open foe. A romance[4] (1884)
- No saint[3] (1886)
- Roy's repentance; a novel[4] (1888)
- Seventy times seven: a novel[4] (1888)
- A life sentence: a novel[4] (1889)
- The luck of the house: a novel (1889)
- Esther Denison[3] (1889)
- Name and fame: a novel[4] (1890)
- A true friend: a novel[4] (1890)
- Brooke's daughter: a novel[4] (1891)
- Christine; a novel[4] (1892)
- The story of a penitent soul[3] (1892)
- Under false pretenses[3] (1892)
- In Vallombrosa[3] (1894)
- The surrender of Margaret Bellarmine. A fragment (1894)
- The mistress of Quest; a novel[4] (1895)
- Out of due season : a mezzotint[4] (1895)
- The failure of Sibyl Fletcher: a novel[4] (1896)
- The idol maker[3] (1897)
- The Lady Charlotte: a novel[4] (1897)
- Margaret Wynne[4] (1898)
- The story of Phil Enerby[3] (1898)
- A rise in the world; a novel[4] (1900)
- My lady's diamonds[4] (1901)
- This body of death[3] (1901)
- Daunay's tower : a novel[4] (1901)
- A soul apart[3] (1902)
- Anthea's way[3] (1903)
- Beneath the veil[3] (1903)
- The passion of Paul Marillier[4] (1908), posthumous
References
- ^ a b c Sutherland, John (1990), The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, pp. 564–565, ISBN 0804718423.
- ^ a b c "Overview: Adeline Sergeant (1851—1904) novelist", Oxford Index, retrieved 3 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 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 Pennsylvania, retrieved 26 February 2013.
External links
- Works by Adeline Sergeant at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Adeline Sergeant at the Internet Archive
- Works by Adeline Sergeant at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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