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Emily Ponsonby

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Lady Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby (1817–1877) was a Victorian novelist.[1]

Life

Lady Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby was born in London in 1817. Her father was John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough who was the Home Secretary in 1834. Her aunt was Lady Caroline Lamb and her estranged husband would become Prime Minister.

Her father's handwriting was notoriously bad even before he had a riding accident which exacerbated the problem. His eldest unmarried daughter was Emily and she served as his secretary.[1]

Ponsonby wrote a number of novels telling tales set in the upper classes.[1] These romances were published anonymously.[2] She died 3 February 1877 at her home in London.

Works

  • The Discipline of Life (1848)[2]
  • Pride and Irresolution - a sequel
  • Mary Gray, and other Tales and Verses (1852)
  • Edward Willoughby (1854)
  • The Young Lord (1856)
  • Sunday Readings, Consisting of Eight Short Sermons Addressed to the Young (1857)
  • A Mother's Trial (1859),
  • Katherine and her Sisters (1861)
  • Sir Owen Fairfax (1866)
  • A Story of Two Cousins (1868)
  • Olivia Beaumont and Lord Latimer

References

  1. ^ a b c Maria Luddy, ‘Ponsonby, Lady Emily Charlotte Mary (1817–1877)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 March 2015
  2. ^ a b Sutherland, John (2014). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. p. 514. ISBN 9781317863335.
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