Eleanor Sleath

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ES was a popular novelist who published six titles, mostly with the Minerva Press , in little more than a decade, having begun just before the close of the eighteenth century. She sometimes intersperses poetry in her prose, which is supposedly the work of her characters. She is normally identified as a gothicist, largely because of Jane Austen 's treatment of her under that heading, but actually wrote didactic, satirical comedy as well.
  • BirthName: Eleanor Carter
  • Married: Sleath; Dudley

Milestones

By 15 October 1770

Eleanor Carter, later the novelist ES , was born shortly before this, the date on which she was baptised at Loughborough in Leicestershire.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.

Probably late 1798

ES published with the Minerva Press her first novel, The Orphan of the Rhine. A Romance, anonymous in four volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 760-1

1815

ES used different publishers, Black and Co. and J. Harris , for her final work, Glenowen; or, The Fairy Palace. A Tale, published with four pages of engraved plates.
This work is not listed in The English Novel 1770-1829 by Peter Garside et al.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

5 May 1847

ES , who for nearly twenty-five years had been by her second marriage Mrs Dudley, died of liver disease at home in the vicarage at Sileby at the age of seventy-seven.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.

Biography

Life Newly Revealed

By 15 October 1770

Eleanor Carter, later the novelist ES , was born shortly before this, the date on which she was baptised at Loughborough in Leicestershire.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. 8 May 2011, http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.