Beatrice Harraden

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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.

Milestones

24 January 1864
BH was born at 32 St John's Wood Park, an address in South Hampstead, the youngest child in a family of four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Early 1893
BH published a novel entitled (quoting from a song in Longfellow 's Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863) Ships that Pass in the Night, dedicated to her friends Agnes and John Kendall .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography mistakenly says that she originated her title phrase.
Harraden, Beatrice. Ships that Pass in the Night. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894.
dedication, front matter
OCLC WorldCat.
May 1928
BH 's final novel, Search Will Find It Out, appeared from another new publisher, Mills and Boon . It is titled from a line by Robert Herrick , duly quoted on its title-page.
Harraden, Beatrice. Search Will Find It Out. Mills and Boon, 1928.
prelims, title-page
British Library Catalogue.
5 May 1936
BH died in a nursing-home at Barton on Sea in Hampshire, reportedly of delirium tremens. She was in her early sixties.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

Birth and Family

24 January 1864
BH was born at 32 St John's Wood Park, an address in South Hampstead, the youngest child in a family of four.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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