Emilie Barrington

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EB published three novels (all either early or late in her writing career, which spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), a religious work, and a travel book, but she made her name as the author of biographies and other scholarly work about several prominent men with whom she was personally connected.
Her fiction is easily confused with that of Lily Adams Beck (also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck ) who published under the pseudonym of E. Barrington.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
  • BirthName: Emilie Isabel Wilson
  • Nickname: Emy Wilson
    Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press, 1984.
    117, 121

  • Self-constructed: Emilie Isabel Barrington
  • Married: Barrington; Mrs Russell Barrington

Milestones

18 October 1841

Emilie Isabel Wilson (later EB ) was born at 15 Hertford Street in Mayfair, London, the youngest of six daughters.
Family biographer Martha Westwater wrongly believed that she was born at Boulogne in France, where her family lived for some time for cheapness.
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press, 1984.
14
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1884

EB compiled a critical catalogue of paintings by George Frederic Watts for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York—which she herself had persuaded Watts to agree to.
Macmillan, Hugh. The Life Work of George Frederic Watts, R.A. 2nd ed., J. M. Dent, 1906.
41, 42

By 14 May 1914

EB published a life of the writer and political theorist Walter Bagehot , her brother-in-law.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
643 (14 May 1914): 236

9 March 1933

EB died at Herd's Hill, Langport, Somerset. She was in her nineties.
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press, 1984.
236
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

18 October 1841

Emilie Isabel Wilson (later EB ) was born at 15 Hertford Street in Mayfair, London, the youngest of six daughters.
Family biographer Martha Westwater wrongly believed that she was born at Boulogne in France, where her family lived for some time for cheapness.
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press, 1984.
14
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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