Julia Stretton

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JS published both children's books and adult novels during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Her final novel comments amusingly and astutely on gender relations and the writing of novels.
  • BirthName: Julia Cecilia Collinson
  • Married: Wilkins; De Winton
    Her first husband changed the family name from Wilkins to de Winton in 1839.
    ; Stretton
  • Pseudonyms: The Author of Woman's Devotion; The Author of Margaret and Her Bridesmaids
  • Indexed: Julia Cecilia Stretton

Milestones

25 November 1812

Julia Cecilia Collinson (later JS ) was born at Gateshead in County Durham, the second daughter, but the eldest to survive, in a family which eventually numbered fifteen children (nine of them girls).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1855

An anonymous three-volume novel appeared with the title Woman's Devotion; this is probably the future JS 's first book.
A mistaken attribution of this novel to Anne Marsh , with the whole chain of other works linked to it by author of claims, is mentioned by OCLC WorldCat and made in Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and other sources.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

1869

A Book of Heroines, JS 's last novel (a remarkable work which incorporates light-hearted analysis of the novel as form), sounds from its title rather like a book of biographies or advice.
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.

17 July 1878

JS died in her mid sixties, by which time her second widowhood had lasted thirteen years.
Sutherland says 1876.
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
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Biography

Birth and Family

25 November 1812

Julia Cecilia Collinson (later JS ) was born at Gateshead in County Durham, the second daughter, but the eldest to survive, in a family which eventually numbered fifteen children (nine of them girls).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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