Eleanora Louisa Hervey

Eleanora Louisa Hervey
BornEleanora Louisa Montagu Edit this on Wikidata
16 November 1811 Edit this on Wikidata
Liverpool Edit this on Wikidata
Died27 October 1903 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 91)
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Thomas Kibble Hervey Edit this on Wikidata

Eleanora Louisa Montagu Hervey (16 November 1811 – 27 October 1903) was a British poet, novelist, and travel writer.

Eleanora Louisa Hervey was born on 16 November 1811 in Liverpool, the daughter of George Conway Courtenay Montagu, son of the ornithologist George Montagu, and Margaret Green Wilkson. In 1843, she married poet and editor Thomas Kibble Hervey. [1][2]

Beginning in the 1830s she became a regular contributor of poetry to periodicals including Churchman's Family Magazine, Chambers's, Athenaeum, Once a Week, Ladies' Companion, and Illustrated London News, She was one of the many poets mentioned in Leigh Hunt's "Blue-Stocking Revels; or, the Feast of the Violets".[3] Her collection of interconnected stories, The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales that were Told There (1863), is one of the earliest original works of fiction based on the Arthurian legends that was written by a woman.[4]

Eleanora Louisa Hervey died on 27 October 1903.[1]

Bibliography

  • The Bard of the Sea Kings, a Legend of Kingley-Vale, and other Poems. London, 1833.[5]
  • Edith of Greystock: A Poem. London: Henry Lindsell, 1833.[6]
  • The Landgrave: A Play in Five Acts.  London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1839.[7]
  • The Pathway of the Fawn. London, 1852.[5]
  • Adventures in Tartary, China, and Kashmir, London, 1853, 3 vols. [8]
  • The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales that were Told There.  1 vol.  London: Bell and Daldy, 1863.[9]
  • Snooded Jessaline: or, The Honour of a House.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1865.[9]
  • New Stories and Old Legends. Illust. London, 1868[8]
  • Our Legends and Lives: a Gift for All Seasons, London, 1869[8]
  • The Rock Light: or, Duty our Watchword.  1 vol.  London: Frederick Warne, 1871.[9]
  • Rest on the Cross. London, 1877.[5]
  • The Children of the Pear-Garden and Their Stories.  1 vol.  London: Frederick Warne, 1878.[9]
  • My Godmother's Stories from Many Lands.  1 vol.  London: R. Washbourne, 1877.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol. 2 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage. p. 2582. doi:10.5118/bpbk.2003. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9.
  2. ^ Adams, H. G. (1857). "Hervey, Eleanora Louisa". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography.
  3. ^ "Eleanora Louisa Hervey". www.djo.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-01.
  4. ^ Lupack, Alan (1999). Arthurian Literature by Women. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-8153-3483-5.
  5. ^ a b c R. C. Alston (May 1991). A Checklist of Women Writers, 1801-1900: Fiction, Verse, Drama. Internet Archive. MacMillan Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8161-7295-5.
  6. ^ Jackson, J. R. de J. (James Robert de Jager) (1993). Romantic poetry by women : a bibliography, 1770-1835. Internet Archive. Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-811239-6.
  7. ^ Davis, Gwenn (1992). Drama by women to 1900 : a bibliography of American and British writers. Internet Archive. Toronto : University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-2797-9.
  8. ^ a b c Kirk, John Foster; Royal College of Physicians of London (1891). A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors : containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. London Royal College of Physicians. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
  9. ^ a b c d e "Author: Eleanora Louisa Montagu". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2024-07-01.