Dorothea Gerard

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Standard Name: Gerard, Dorothea
Birth Name: Dorothea Mary Stanislaus Gerard
Married Name: Dorothea Mary Stanislaus Longard de Longgarde
Indexed Name: Madame Longard de Longgarde
Pseudonym: E. D. Gerard
Pseudonym: The Wife of One of Its Officers
DG was a novelist and romance-writer whose general conservatism co-existed with a piercing eye for relations across national and ethnic divides, for antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. She was the author, too, of an interesting social study of the pan-European officer class to be found in the Imperial army of Austria. She wrote to please herself: later independently though at first in collaboration with her less prolific elder sister, Emily . She published thirteen titles between 1892 and 1914, almost all of them with Tauchnitz editions, which meant she was aiming at the market of English speakers travelling abroad.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Emily Gerard
The novelist Dorothea Gerard was EG 's younger sister and in early years her literary collaborator.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Material Conditions of Writing Emily Gerard
Emily and Dorothea Gerard began to collaborate in 1877 when they found themselves consigned to the deadly monotony of a little town in the Galicia region of the Austro-Hungarian empire (currently Poland). Both felt...
Author summary Emily Gerard
EG wrote and published novels, short stories, reviews, and a travel book during the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries. Her earliest novels were produced in collaboration with her more prolific younger sister, Dorothea
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
This was one of the six-shilling novels published by Stanley Paul , a series including work by such writers as Rhoda Broughton , Dorothea Gerard , and Violet Hunt . (The same firm issued two-shilling...
Textual Production Emily Gerard
EG and Dorothea Gerard published with Blackwood their first jointly-authored novel under their combined pseudonym, E. D. Gerard: Reata. What's in a Name
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2743 (1800): 660-1
Textual Production Emily Gerard
EG and her sister Dorothea published their second joint work, Beggar My Neighbour, a novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2830 (1882): 88
British Library Catalogue.
Textual Production Emily Gerard
EG and her sister Dorothea published the third of their collaborative novels, The Waters of Hercules.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3012 (1885): 79
Textual Production Emily Gerard
EG and her sister Dorothea published the fourth and last of their collaborative novels, A Sensitive Plant (mostly written some years before), in three volumes, with Kegan Paul .
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, 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.
Textual Production Emily Gerard
EG published the first of her novels in which her sister had no part: A Secret Mission, remarkable as an early spy novel by a woman, and for its depiction of female power.
This...
Textual Production Emily Gerard
In EG 's novel A Foreigner. An Anglo-German Study, the heroine encounters the central character from Dorothea Gerard 's A Queen of Curds and Cream, 1892.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, 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.

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