Adeline Sergeant

Adeline Sergeant
Born 4 July 1851
Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Died 4 December 1904 (aged 53)
Bournemouth, Dorset
Nationality English
Occupation Writer

Adeline Sergeant (4 July 1851 – 4 December 1904) was an English writer.

Born Emily Frances Adeline Sergeant at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the second daughter of Richard Sergeant and Jane (Hall),[1] she was home schooled until the age of thirteen, when she attended school in Weston-super-Mare. At fifteen a collection of her poems were published in a volume that received positive notice in Weslayan periodicals. She won a scholarship to attend Queen's College, London. Her father died in 1870, and for several years she became a governess at Riverhead, Kent.[2]

In 1882, her novel Jacobi's wife resulted in a small award of £100,[1] and the work was published serially in London. For the next several years he writings were serialized in the Dundee newspaper, where she lived from 1885-7. Adeline then moved to Bloomsbury, London, where she earned enough keep to support herself through her writings.[2] Over her literary career, she produced over ninety novels; with some involving a religious theme. Her religious views evolved over time, including a period in the 1880s when she was briefly agnostic.[1] She frequently traveled abroad, making trips to Egypt and Palestine. In 1901 she moved to Bournemouth, where she died in 1904.[2]

Bibliography

  • Beyond recall[2] (1882)
  • Jacobi's wife[2] (1882)
  • An open foe. A romance[3] (1884)
  • No saint[2] (1886)
  • Roy's repentance; a novel[3] (1888)
  • Seventy times seven: a novel[3] (1888)
  • A life sentence: a novel[3] (1889)
  • The luck of the house: a novel (1889)
  • Esther Denison[2] (1889)
  • Name and fame: a novel[3] (1890)
  • A true friend: a novel[3] (1890)
  • Brooke's daughter: a novel[3] (1891)
  • Christine; a novel[3] (1892)
  • The story of a penitent soul[2] (1892)
  • Under false pretenses[2] (1892)
  • In Vallombrosa[2] (1894)
  • The surrender of Margaret Bellarmine. A fragment (1894)
  • The mistress of Quest; a novel[3] (1895)
  • Out of due season : a mezzotint[3] (1895)
  • The failure of Sibyl Fletcher: a novel[3] (1896)
  • The idol maker[2] (1897)
  • The Lady Charlotte: a novel[3] (1897)
  • Margaret Wynne[3] (1898)
  • The story of Phil Enerby[2] (1898)
  • A rise in the world; a novel[3] (1900)
  • My lady's diamonds[3] (1901)
  • This body of death[2] (1901)
  • Daunay's tower : a novel[3] (1901)
  • A soul apart[2] (1902)
  • Anthea's way[2] (1903)
  • Beneath the veil[2] (1903)
  • The passion of Paul Marillier[3] (1908), posthumous

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sutherland, John (1990), The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, Stanford University Press, pp. 564–565, ISBN 0804718423.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Sergeant, Adeline". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​ 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 291–292.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 "Browsing Authors With Titles: Sergeant, Adeline", The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania), retrieved 2013-02-26.

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about:
Adeline Sergeant