Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
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Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862 - 3 January 1931), was a British novelist who wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, which she varied according to the topic involved.
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[edit] Family
Moresby was the daughter of Royal Navy Captain John Moresby.
[edit] Career
[edit] Travel
Moresby traveled widely in the east, in Egypt, India, China, Tibet and Japan but settled eventually in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1919.
[edit] Literature
Moresby was already sixty years old by the time she started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting. She was a staunch Buddhist and strict vegetarian, highly critical of the materialism of the West.
[edit] Works
[edit] As E. Barrington
Under the pseudonym E. Barrington, Moresby wrote historical romances.
- The Ladies, available at Project Gutenberg
- The Devine Lady
- Glorious Apollo, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1925
- The Thunderer; A Romance of Napoleon and Josephine, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927
- The Laughing Queen: A Romance of Cleopatra. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929
[edit] As Eliza Louisa Beck
As Eliza Louisa Beck, Moresby wrote on themes inspired by Eastern Philosophy.
- The Ninth Vibration and Other Stories, 1922 (available at Project Gutenberg)
- The House of Fulfillment, 1927
- The Laughing Queen, 1929
[edit] As Louis Moresby
As Louis Moresby she wrote nonfiction, including a history of Egypt, The Glory of Egypt, George H. Doran Co., 1926.
