Fanny Aikin Kortright

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FAK , writing through the later half of the nineteenth century, was primarily known as a sensation novelist. Her books were regularly noticed, though not flatteringly, in the Athenæum. Her first publication was a volume of poetry, and she also edited a journal (to which she contributed) and published anti-feminist polemic. She issued several titles privately, and the last of them, a privately-printed autobiography, is extremely rare.

Milestones

28 January 1821

Frances Aikin Kortright was born in a modest house in Harper Street, Kent Road, South London, the seventeenth and youngest child in her family.
Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons.

1848

FAK published her first book under her own name (as Fanny Kortright): Dreams of My Youth, Poems.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By July 1857

FAK published the governess novel Anne Sherwood: or, The Social Institutions of England. She signed her dedication to Harriet Beecher Stowe with the pseudonym Berkeley-Aikin.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1550 (1857): 881
Kortright, Fanny Aikin. Anne Sherwood. Richard Bentley.
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After November 1896

FAK , by this time living in an almshouse, printed for private circulation
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.
through the London printers Farmer and Sons , The Recollections of My Long Life.
Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons.
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.

31 October 1900

FAK died at nearly eighty.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

28 January 1821

Frances Aikin Kortright was born in a modest house in Harper Street, Kent Road, South London, the seventeenth and youngest child in her family.
Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons.