Emily Eden

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Shortly after the middle of the nineteenth century, EE published two novels (one of them begun during the 1830s) and a volume of her letters from India. She also published a collection of her water-colour sketches, and further letters reached print after her death.
  • BirthName: Emily Eden
  • Styled: the Honourable
    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.
    Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Watercolour portrait of Emily Eden by Simon Jacques Rochard, August 1835. She sits in a chair with her left hand its arm, and her right hand reaching down to a small spaniel-type dog has its paws on her knee. She wears a billowy gown patterned with blue and pink stripes and decorated with bows and ruffles at collar and shoulders. She wears her hair up in a high bun with pink ribbons at each side of her head.

Milestones

3 March 1797

EE was born in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, the seventh of eight daughters and the twelfth of fourteen children.
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, 1983, p. v - xx.
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Thompson, Edward John, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Curzon Press, 1978, p. ix - xiv.
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By 27 August 1859

Emily Eden published her successful anonymous novel The Semi-Detached House; the title-page claim that it was edited by Lady T. Lewis resulted in the common ascription of its authorship to Lady Theresa .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1661 (1859): 272; 2018 (1866): 857

5 August 1869

EE died in her early seventies, at Fountain House, 5 Upper Hill Street, Richmond, Surrey, where she had been living during her last years.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Biography

Birth and Family

3 March 1797

EE was born in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, the seventh of eight daughters and the twelfth of fourteen children.
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, 1983, p. v - xx.
vi
Thompson, Edward John, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Curzon Press, 1978, p. ix - xiv.
ix

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