Adeline Sergeant

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Adeline Sergeant
BornEmily Frances Adeline Sergeant Edit this on Wikidata
4 July 1851 Edit this on Wikidata
Ashbourne Edit this on Wikidata
Died4 December 1904 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 53)
Bournemouth Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationWriter, poet, novelist Edit this on Wikidata

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

Life[edit]

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. Her mother was a writer of stories for youngsters that were published under the pen name 'Adeline'; Emily later adopted this name for her own writings.[2] At fifteen a collection of Emily's 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.[3]

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 her writings were serialized in the Dundee newspaper, where she lived from 1885 to 1887. Adeline then moved to Bloomsbury, London, where she earned enough keep to support herself through her writings.[3] In the late 1880s she developed an interest in Fabianism and the plight of the poor in London.[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] Finally, she converted to Catholicism at the end of the century. Emily served as literary adviser to the publishing company R. Bentley & Sons.[2] She frequently travelled abroad, making trips to Egypt and Palestine. In 1901 she moved to Bournemouth, where she died in 1904.[3]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Una's Crusade, and other tales[4] (1880)
  • Beyond Recall[3] (1882)
  • Jacobi's Wife[3] (1882)
  • My Nelly's Story, and Halliday's Lads[4] (1882)
  • An Open Foe. A romance[5] (1884)
  • No Saint[3] (1886)
  • Roy's Repentance[5] (1888)
  • Seventy Times Seven[5] (1888)
  • Deveril's Diamond[6] (1889)
  • A Life Sentence[5] (1889)
  • The Luck of the House (1889)
  • Esther Denison[3] (1889)
  • Name and Fame[5] (1890)
  • A True Friend[5] (1890)
  • Little Miss Colwyn[6] (1890)
  • Brooke's daughter[5] (1891)
  • Sir Anthony[6] (1892)
  • Christine[5] (1892)
  • The Story of a Penitent Soul[3] (1892)
  • Under False Pretences[3] (1892)
  • An East London Mystery[6] (1892)
  • A Broken Idol[6] (1893)
  • In Vallombrosa[3] (1894)
  • The Surrender of Margaret Bellarmine. A fragment (1894)
  • St. Maur[6] (1894)
  • Christine[6] (1894)
  • Dr. Endicott's Experiment[6] (1894)
  • The Mistress of Quest[5] (1895)
  • Out of Due Season : a mezzotint[5] (1895)
  • Marjory's Mistake[6] (1895)
  • Kitty Holden[6] (1895)
  • No Ambition[6] (1895)
  • A Deadly Foe[6] (1895)
  • Erica's Husband[6] (1896)
  • The Failure of Sibyl Fletcher[5] (1896)
  • Roger Vanbrugh's Wife[6] (1896)
  • Told in the Twilight[6] (1896)
  • A Rogue's Daughter[6] (1896)
  • In the Wilderness[6] (1896)
  • In Vallombrosa[6] (1897)
  • The Claim of Anthony Lockhart[6] (1897)
  • The Idol-Maker[4] (1897)
  • The Lady Charlotte[5] (1897)
  • Marjory Moore's Lovers[4] (1897)
  • A Valuable Life[6] (1898)
  • Miss Betty's Mistake[6] (1898)
  • Margaret Wynne[5] (1898)
  • The Story of Phil Enderby[3] (1898)
  • Blake of Oriel[6] (1899)
  • The Love Story of Margaret Wynne[6] (1899)
  • The Common Lot[4] (1899)
  • The Conscience of Gilbert Pollard[6] (1900)
  • A Rise in the World[5] (1900)
  • Miss Cleveland's Companion[6] (1901)
  • A Great Lady[6] (1901)
  • My Lady's Diamonds[5] (1901)
  • Sylvia's Ambition[6] (1901)
  • This Body of Death[3] (1901)
  • Daunay's tower[5] (1901)
  • The Treasure of Captain Scarlett[4] (1901)
  • The Marriage of Lydia Mainwaring[6] (1902)
  • A Soul Apart[3] (1902)
  • Barbara's Money[4] (1902)
  • The Master of Beechwood[4] (1902)
  • The Mission of Margaret, and other stories[4] (1902)
  • Anthea's way[3] (1903)
  • Beneath the Veil[3] (1903)
  • Alison's Ordeal. A story for girls[4] (1903)
  • Cynthia's Ideal[4] (1903)
  • The Love that Overcame[4] (1903)
  • The Progress of Rachel[4] (1904)
  • The Yellow Diamond[4] (1904)
  • Accused and Accuser[4] (1904)
  • Dicky and His Friends[4] (1904)
  • Nellie Maturin's Victory[4] (1905), posthumous
  • The Sixth Sense[4] (1905), posthumous
  • The Missing Elizabeth[4] (1905), posthumous
  • An Independent Maiden[4] (1906), posthumous
  • An Impetuous Girl[4] (1906), posthumous
  • The Quest of Geoffrey Darrell[4] (1907), posthumous
  • The House in the Crescent[4] (1907), posthumous
  • The Passion of Paul Marillier[5] (1908), posthumous
  • May's Cousin[4] (1909), posthumous
  • My Lady's Diamonds[4] (1913), posthumous

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Sutherland, John (1990) [1989]. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 564–565. ISBN 0-8047-1842-3. LCCN 88061462. OCLC 634211327. OL 2064970M – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c "Overview: Adeline Sergeant (1851—1904) novelist", Oxford Index, retrieved 3 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Sergeant, Adeline" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 291–292.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "British Library Catalogue". British Library Catalogue. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Ockerbloom, John Mark (ed.). Online Books by Adeline Sergeant (Sergeant, Adeline, 1851-1904). The Online Books Page. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library. LCCN 2003557393. OCLC 36568626. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901". At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 13 March 2024.

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