Emilie Barrington

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Standard Name: Barrington, Emilie
Birth Name: Emilie Isabel Wilson
Married Name: Emilie Isabel Barrington
Married Name: Mrs Russell Barrington
Nickname: Emy Wilson
Self-constructed Name: Emilie Isabel Barrington
EB published three novels (all either early or late in her writing career, which spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), a religious work, and a travel book, but she made her name as the author of biographies and other scholarly work about several prominent men with whom she was personally connected.
Her fiction is easily confused with that of Lily Adams Beck (also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck ) who published under the pseudonym of E. Barrington.
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.
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Fraser-Tytler
CFT 's sister who became by marriage Mary Watts grew up to be an artist who in a retrospective of her work at the Watts Gallery in 1998 was called the unsung heroine of the...
Friends, Associates Emily Faithfull
As a member of the Langham Place GroupEF counted most of the women activists of the day among her friends. Her far-flung circle of associates included Adelaide Procter and Frances Power Cobbe .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Timeline

2 September 1843: The Economist, a new weekly founded by businessman...

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2 September 1843

The Economist, a new weekly founded by businessman and MP James Wilson , issued its first number.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...

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1881

The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington described some years later in a letter to The Times.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(30 March 1888): 8

Texts

Barrington, Emilie. A St. Luke of the Nineteenth Century. Longmans, Green, 1922.
Barrington, Emilie. Essays on the Purpose of Art. Longmans, Green, 1911.
Barrington, Emilie. G.F. Watts. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Barrington, Emilie. G.F. Watts: Reminiscences. G. Allen, 1905.
Barrington, Emilie. Helen’s Ordeal. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894.
Barrington, Emilie. Lena’s Picture. D. Douglas, 1892, 2 vols.
Barrington, Emilie. Life of Walter Bagehot. Longmans, Green, 1914.
Barrington, Emilie. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. G. Allen, 1906.
Barrington, Emilie. The Servant of All. Longmans, Green, 1927.
Barrington, Emilie. Through Greece and Dalmatia. A. and C. Black, 1912.