Grace Aguilar

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Standard Name: Aguilar, Grace
Birth Name: Grace Aguilar
GA , 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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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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...
Literary responses Marion Moss
An Athenæum review criticized the collection, claiming the sisters neglected the really romantic annals and legends of their nation and erroneously represented Jewish life: [T]hough the names and scenery are Jewish and Eastern, the manners...
Anthologization Marion Moss
MM 's Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar are reprinted in the Broadview Press edition of Aguilar's Selected Writings, 2003.
Textual Production Sir Walter Scott
His concealment of his name (generally as the author of Waverley) for the first dozen years of his career in fiction gave Scott the nickname The Great Unknown. The mystery generated great public...
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...

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Texts

Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company, 1891.
Aguilar, Grace. Works. D. Appleton, 1870.