EL
first met William Ewart Gladstone
at a hotel in Cannes, where they had a rich two-hour conversation about Irish politics and her recent book With Essex
in Ireland.
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, pp. 80-100.
86
Textual Production
Emily Lawless
EL
published her historical novel With Essex
in Ireland, cast in the form of an actual archival narrative.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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