Jessie Ellen Cadell

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The publishing career of JEC , scholar and novelist, opened in 1876, less than a decade before the end of her short life. Her single identified critical essay and one of her novels appeared during that decade, but her second novel and her scholarly verse translation of Omar Khayyáam were posthumously published. She never completed her projected history of India.
  • BirthName: Jessie Ellen Nash
  • Married: Cadell
    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.

Milestones

23 August 1844

Jessie Ellen Nash (later JEC ) was born in Hampstead Road, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

17 June 1884

JEC died at Florence in Italy after many years of unspecified ill health.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

After May 1899

JEC 's verse translation from Persian of The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam was posthumously published by her friend Richard Garnett .
A note on the verso of the title-page of the London edition says: composition and presswork done at the office of C. H. Heintzemann , Boston, Mass.
Garnett, Richard et al. “Introduction”. The Ruba’yat of Omar Khayam, edited by Richard Garnett, translated by. Jessie Ellen Cadell, John Lane, 1899, p. v - xxx.
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Biography

Birth and Background

23 August 1844

Jessie Ellen Nash (later JEC ) was born in Hampstead Road, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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