Beatrice Harraden

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Standard Name: Harraden, Beatrice
Birth Name: Beatrice Harraden
Writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, BH published seventeen novels, besides journalism and letters to the editor, short stories, a suffrage play and pamphlet, and children's books. Favourite topics with her, seemingly based in different ways on her personal experience, are female friendship, music and musicians, and illness.
Black and white photograph of Beatrice Harraden, shown from the shoulders up. She has her head turned and appears to be looking off intently into the distance. She wears a light dress with flower detailing around the neck, and she has short curly hair and small wire-rimmed spectacles perched on the end of her nose.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Evelyn Glover
Though not known to the eminent residents of the nearby square, EG enjoyed a cordial acquaintance with many of their cooks and butlers, based on a shared love of cats. She mentions some theatrical friends:...
Occupation Inez Bensusan
These plays, written by amateur and professional writers, were made available for performance at public events in support of women's suffrage. Bensusan encouraged writers to produce plays dealing with a range of women's issues such...

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Texts

Harraden, Beatrice. Youth Calling. Hodder and Stoughton, 1924.