Emily Lawless

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EL published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries across a wide range of forms: the novel, history, fictional autobiography, short story, poetry, and critical biography. Remembered primarily for her work on Irish themes, Lawless's writing has also been gaining increasing critical attention for its feminist and environmental concerns.
  • BirthName: Emily LawlessThe Hon. Emily Lawless
  • Pseudonyms: Henry Harvey; John Oliver Maddox, M.A.
    Both Henry Harvey and John Oliver Maddox, M.A. were pseudonyms Lawless used in her With Essex in Ireland.
    The catalogue of the Princess Grace Irish Library of Monaco lists Edith Lytton as an occasional pseudonym of Emily Lawless. It does not, however, link this explicitly with any Lawless text, and most research library catalogues identify Edith Lytton as a name to Edith Villiers, later Edith, Countess of Lytton .
    “PGIL EIRData (Electronic Irish Records Dataset)”. The Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco).
    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.
    Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
    OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

  • Styled: Emily LawlessThe Hon. Emily Lawless

Milestones

17 June 1845

EL , future novelist and poet, was born at Lyons Castle in county Kildare, Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

January 1867

Twenty-one-year-old EL published An Addition to Mr. Birchall 's List of 'The Lepidoptera of Ireland' in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine.
Hansson, Heidi. Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace. Cork University Press, 2007.
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By 13 March 1892

EL published Grania: The Story of an Island, which is considered by critics to be her masterpiece.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
New York Tribune.
(13 March 1892): 14

19 October 1913

EL died at Gomshall in Surrey: her obituaries do not name the cause of her death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.

June 1914

EL 's final work, a book of poetry which she was revising when she died, was The Inalienable Heritage, privately printed after her death with a preface provided by Edith Sichel .
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, July 1914, pp. 80-100.
89

Biography

Birth, Family, and Youth

17 June 1845

EL , future novelist and poet, was born at Lyons Castle in county Kildare, Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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