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Alicia Le Fanu

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Alicia Le Fanu (born 1791) was an Irish poet and writer. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Sheridan and Captain Henry Le Fanu, and a granddaughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Sheridan. She died, unmarried, sometime after 1844, in Dublin. She was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, Aungier Street, Dublin, but the exact date of death is unknown.[1]

Select bibliography

  • The Flowers; or, The Sylphid Queen: A Fairy Tale in Verse (London: J. Harris 1809)
  • Rosara’s Chain; or, The Choice of Life, a poem (London: M. J. Godwin 1812)
  • Strathallan (London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones 1816)
  • Leolin Abbey: A Novel (London: Longman &c 1819)
  • Don Juan De Las Sierras: A Romance (London: Newman & Co. 1823)
  • Tales of a Tourist (London: Newman & Co. 1824)
  • Henry the Fourth of France: A Romance (London: Newman & Co. 1826)
  • Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (1824)

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