Anna Steele

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Writing in the second half of the nineteenth century, Anna Steele worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, the short story, translation, and musical composition. Her six novels straddle the modes of sensationalism and romance: their young heroines invariably find the path of love to be tumultuous.
  • BirthName: Anna Caroline Wood
  • Nickname: Nan
    AS was known by this familiar name by (at least) Eneas Sweetland Dallas .

  • Married: Steele
  • Pseudonyms: C.
    AS published her first book under this initial.
    ; Gabrielle Carr; A. C. S.
    It seems that A. C. S. quoted her own poetry with her initials in her novel Condoned.

Milestones

Probably December 1840

Anna Caroline Wood, later the novelist AS , was born in Essex, either in the vicarage in Cressing or in a house called Glazenwood in Bradwell, near Braintree.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
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, 1990.
Marlow, Joyce. The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland: The Life of ’Kitty’ O’Shea. Saturday Review Press, 1975.
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1860

AS issued at the nearby town of Braintree a book of poetry under the pseudonym C. Entitled Thoughts Versified, the volume is now certainly known to be hers.
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.

By 13 June 1896

AS published her last novel, Lesbia: A Study in One Volume, which depicts the stifling effect of male idealization of women.
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, 1990.
The Academy.
49 (13 June 1896): 485

1914

AS died in her mid-seventies, probably at her home in Brighton. Her death was apparently the consequence of an accident which occurred some time before this, in which she had broken her thigh.
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, 1990.
Bradhurst, Minna Evangeline. A Century of Letters. Printed for private circulation by R. E. Thomas and Newman, 1929.
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Biography

Birth and Family

Probably December 1840

Anna Caroline Wood, later the novelist AS , was born in Essex, either in the vicarage in Cressing or in a house called Glazenwood in Bradwell, near Braintree.
The Trustees of FreeBMD,. FreeBMD. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
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, 1990.
Marlow, Joyce. The Uncrowned Queen of Ireland: The Life of ’Kitty’ O’Shea. Saturday Review Press, 1975.
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