Isabella Harwood
Isabella Harwood | |
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| Born | 14 June 1837 Dorset |
| Died | 29 May 1888 St Mary-in-the-Castle |
| Nationality | British |
Isabella Harwood or Ross Neil (14 June 1837 – 29 May 1888) was a British novelist who also wrote dramas in verse.
Biography
[edit]Harwood was probably born in Dorset in 1837 where her parents Phillip Harwood and his wife Isabella Neil lived. Phillip Harwood was then a Unitarian minister in Bridport.[1]
Between 1864 and 1870 she wrote four sensational novels which were published without attribution. Between 1871 and 1883 she wrote a number of unfashionable blank verse dramas which were said to be readable.[2] Two were produced in Edinburgh and London but they were not favourably received.[3]
Harwood lived with her father in London and then in Hastings. She died in St Mary-in-the-Castle in 1888 in Hastings a year after her father.[3]
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Abbot's Cleve
- Carleton Grange
- Raymond's Heroine
- Kathleen
- The Heir Expectant
- Plays
- Lady Jane Grey; Inez, or, The Bride of Portugal
Plays
[edit]- The Cid; The King and the Angel; Duke for a Day; or The Tailor of Brussels
- Elfinella, or, Home from Fairyland; Lord and Lady Russell
- Arabella Stuart; The Heir of Linne; Tasso
- Eglantine
- Andrea the Painter; Claudia's Choice; Orestes; Pandora
References
[edit]- ^ R. K. Webb, ‘Harwood, Philip (1811–1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 29 Dec 2014
- ^ Isabella Harwood ("Ross Neil") (1840–1888), Critical and Biographical Essay by Richard Garnett
- ^ a b Megan A. Stephan, ‘Harwood, Isabella Neil (1837?–1888)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 28 Dec 2014
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- English women novelists
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- 19th-century British dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century English women writers
- Victorian novelists
- Victorian women writers
- 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights