Emily Gerard

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Standard Name: Gerard, Emily
Birth Name: Jane Emily Gerard
Married Name: Jane Emily de Laszowski
Pseudonym: E. D. 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 . She wrote to please herself, with no anxieties about earnings. Her stories are plot-driven, often structured around some witty or paradoxical idea. Her novels are more nuanced and interesting, dealing with masculine subject-matter like adventure, politics, or science, in which, however, gender issues are often involved.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothea Gerard
The novelist Emily Gerard was DG 's elder sister and sometimes 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 Dorothea Gerard
Its skeleton plot had been drafted by her and her sister together before her marriage.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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DG dedicated it to her friend Princess Sophie d'Arenberg , née Princess d'Auersperg. The title-page bore her full birth...
Author summary Dorothea Gerard
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...
Publishing Dorothea Gerard
DG published at both London and Leipzig her novel A Queen of Curds and Cream, from which her sister Emily borrows a character in her A Foreigner, 1896.
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.
Residence Dorothea Gerard
The teenage DG 's mother died, and she went to live with her recently married sister Emily de Laszowski at Brzezno in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia(now Berezhany, Ukraine, called Brzezany by Helen C. Black
Textual Production Dorothea Gerard
DG published four novels in collaboration with her sister Emily under their joint pseudonym of E. D. Gerard: Reata. What's in a Name, 1880, Beggar My Neighbour, early 1882, The Waters of...

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