Selina Davenport

27 June 1779 - 14 July 1859

Although or because she was harrassed by poverty, SD published, between 1813 and 1834, eleven novels (mostly with the Minerva Press ) which the Feminist Companion calls effective if stereotyped,

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.

as well as mostly unidentified short fiction.

BirthName: Selina Granville Wheler
She was said to have published novels as Miss Granville.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Self-constructed: Mrs Granville
Married: Davenport
Pseudonym: A Lady

Milestones

27 June 1779

Selina Wheler (later SD ) was born in London, apparently out of wedlock.

Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

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.

After April 1834

SD published her final work, Personation. A Novel, dedicated to The Travellers' Club and to succourers of the destitute in memory of her relation to the late Sir George Wheler , Baronet.

McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.

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Davenport, Selina. Personation. A Novel. A. K. Newman, 1834, 3 vols.

prelims

A little before mid-July 1859

SD died at Knutsford, aged eighty. She was buried in the parish church there on 14 July.

Watkins, Louise. “Selina Davenport”. Corvey ’Adopt an Author’, May 1998.

Biography

Birth and Background

27 June 1779

Selina Wheler (later SD ) was born in London, apparently out of wedlock.

Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.

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.