Jemima Tautphoeus

23 October 1807 - 12 November 1893

JT , an Irish-born, mid-Victorian writer who lived most of her life in Bavaria, wrote four novels. Her work was often praised for its descriptions of the Bavarian landscape and people—both upper-class and peasant—who inhabited it.

Milestones

23 October 1807

Jemima Montgomery (later JT ) was born at Seaview, Donegal, Ireland.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

By 20 April 1850

JT 's first novel, The Initials, was published in three volumes, as by the Baroness Tautphoeus.

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.

The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

1173 (1850): 415

By 2 May 1863

JT 's final, historical work, At Odds, a Novel, was published in London in two volumes as by the Baroness Tautphoeus.

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.

The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

1853 (1863): 583

12 November 1893

JT died in Munich.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.

Biography

Birth, Family, and Education

23 October 1807

Jemima Montgomery (later JT ) was born at Seaview, Donegal, Ireland.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.