Isabel Hill

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IH is best known as a writer for annuals, to which she made at least thirty-four contributions of short stories and comic articles for both children and adults. She wrote six dramas, and also published a single novel and several translations of French works. Her writing career was plagued by lukewarm reception and publishers who failed to pay. She benefited, however, from the unwavering advocacy of her biggest fan, her brother .

Milestones

21 August 1800

IH was born in Bristol, the youngest of four children, of whom the others were all boys.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Early January 1842

IH died at 5 Montpelier Row, Montpelier Square, Brompton, aged forty-one, after a long illness which appears to have been tuberculosis.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

After January 1842

IH 's five-act tragedy Brian, the Probationer; or, The Red Hand was posthumously published along with a memoir written by her brother Benson Earle Hill .
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.

Biography

Birth and Family

21 August 1800

IH was born in Bristol, the youngest of four children, of whom the others were all boys.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
181
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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