Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Grace Aguilar
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Standard Name: Aguilar, Grace
Birth Name: Grace Aguilar
GA
, author of short stories, novels, and religious writings, was the only Anglo-Jewish woman in the nineteenth century to achieve considerable success as a writer. In addition to writing for gift-books and periodicals, in her lifetime she published a book of poetry, a single novel, a translation, a work on women's Biblical history, and two books of non-fiction on Jewish topics. As many additional volumes appeared posthumously.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Aguilar, Grace. Macintosh, the Highland Chief. G. Routledge.
Aguilar, Grace. Edmund, the Exiled Prince, and Wallace, the Dauntless Chief. G. Routledge.
In Philadelphia, Isaac Leeser
's The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate printed (along with works by Celia Moss
and Grace Aguilar
) The Return of David by MM
(under her married name).
Leeser, Isaac, editor. The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate.
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Sir Walter Scott
His concealment of his name (generally as the author of Waverley) for the first dozen years of his career in fiction gave Scott the nickname The Great Unknown. The mystery generated great public...
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Camilla Crosland
CC
published two more novels—Mrs. Blake: A Story of Twenty Years (1862) and Hubert Freeth's Prosperity (1874)—as well as Summer Night: A Cantata for Treble Voices, which consists of lyrics written to accompany...
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Camilla Crosland
Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington