Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Grace Aguilar
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Standard Name: Aguilar, Grace
Birth Name: Grace Aguilar
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, author of short stories, novels, and religious writings, was the only Anglo-Jewish woman in the nineteenth century to achieve considerable success as a writer. In addition to writing for gift-books and periodicals, in her lifetime she published a book of poetry, a single novel, a translation, a work on women's Biblical history, and two books of non-fiction on Jewish topics. As many additional volumes appeared posthumously.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Aguilar, Grace. Macintosh, the Highland Chief. G. Routledge.
Aguilar, Grace. Edmund, the Exiled Prince, and Wallace, the Dauntless Chief. G. Routledge.
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moved in a considerably higher stratum of society than her contemporary Grace Aguilar
. It is possible, however, that they corresponded during their collaboration for the Cheap Jewish Library. In a letter to...
Education
Kate Chopin
Following her father's death, her education was supplemented by her maternal great-grandmother Victoire Verdon Charleville
, who placed a particular emphasis on French and music.The young Kate O'Flaherty was also a voracious reader, and enjoyed...
Education
G. B. Stern
At first Gladys was taught at home by governesses: the stout, comical angel Fräulein Sanders,
Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall.
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followed by several lunatics, one elderly nymphomaniac (unsuccessful) and a prostitute
Stern, G. B. Monogram. Chapman and Hall.
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(that is, a governess who was dismissed...
Anthologization
Marion Moss
With the encouragement of MP Sir George Staunton
(to whom they dedicated the volume),
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com.
but unbeknownst to their parents, the sisters published it to support the family after their father
became ill and bedridden...
Anthologization
Marion Moss
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's Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar are reprinted in the Broadview Press
edition of Aguilar's Selected Writings, 2003.
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Texts
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company, 1891.