George Paston

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George Paston (Emily Morse Symonds) began her writing career as a novelist in the 1890s, but from 1900 turned her attention to writing biographies, histories, and drama, many of which reflect her fascination with the eighteenth century. Several of her works question the legal and social limitations faced by women of all classes, particularly within the institution of marriage.

Milestones

4 September 1860

Emily Morse Symonds (who later wrote under the pseudonym GP ) was born in St-Mary-in-the-Marsh parish, Sprowston, near Norwich.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stetz, Margaret, and George Paston. “Introduction”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, p. v - xiv.
vii

September 1891

GP , already past thirty, launched her writing career with an anonymous article in the Cornhill Magazine, Cousins German.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197

By 3 November 1898

GP published her last novel, A Writer of Books, which exposes the obstacles faced by women writers in a male-dominated publishing industry.
Stetz, Margaret, and George Paston. “Introduction”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, p. v - xiv.
vi
Miller, Anita, and George Paston. “Afterword”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, pp. 261-5.
261

11 September 1936

GP died at home shortly after her seventy-sixth birthday, of heart failure.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(12 September 1936): 14
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 3 June 1939

"To Lord Byron ": Feminine Profiles Based Upon Unpublished Letters, a volume of women's letters that GP left unfinished, was posthumously issued, completed by a younger historian, Peter Quennell .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1948 (3 June 1939): 329
Miller, Anita, and George Paston. “Afterword”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, pp. 261-5.
265
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
149
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Biography

Birth and Family

4 September 1860

Emily Morse Symonds (who later wrote under the pseudonym GP ) was born in St-Mary-in-the-Marsh parish, Sprowston, near Norwich.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stetz, Margaret, and George Paston. “Introduction”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, p. v - xiv.
vii

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