Betsy Sheridan

Not to be confused with the subject's sister-in-law Elizabeth Ann Sheridan.

Ann Elizabeth "Betsy" Sheridan Le Fanu (1758–1837) was an Anglo-Irish diarist and novelist. She was a daughter of Irish stage actor Thomas Sheridan and the sister of satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and playwright Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu. She married Captain Henry Le Fanu in 1791, and their daughter Alicia Le Fanu was also a writer.

Works

• The Triumph of Prudence Over Passion, Or, The History of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald. Four Courts Press. 1781. ISBN 9781846822896. pseudonym:"the Authoress Of Emeline"
• Lefanu, Elizabeth Sheridan (1986). Betsy Sheridan's Journal: Letters from Sheridan's Sister, 1784–1786 and 1788–1790. ISBN 1258515520. – journal entries compiled and edited by relative William LeFanu
• The India voyage. G. and J. Robinson. 1804. ISBN 3628480477.

External sites

• Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page