Ada Trevanion
Ada Trevanion (1829 – 11 February 1882) was a British poet and writer. Ada Trevanion was born in the summer of 1829, the youngest of three daughters of Henry Trevanion, a minor poet, and his third cousin Georgiana Leigh, the eldest daughter of Augusta Leigh. They married despite the objections of Georgiana's father, Col.
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Ada Trevanion
- Born
- 1829
- Died
- 1882
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Fields
- literary activity · prose · poetry · translating activity
- Languages
- English
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Ada Trevanion (1829 – 11 February 1882) was a British poet and writer. Ada Trevanion was born in the summer of 1829, the youngest of three daughters of Henry Trevanion, a minor poet, and his third cousin Georgiana Leigh, the eldest daughter of Augusta Leigh. They married despite the objections of Georgiana's father, Col.
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Born in 1829, died in 1882.
The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is literary activity, prose and poetry. Places of work recorded in the authority are England and London.
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- 1.Turney, Catherine. Byron's daughter : a biography of Elizabeth Medora Leigh. Newton Abbot : Readers Union Group of Book Clubs. 1975. 978-0-684-12753-8.
- 2.Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie). The Byrons and Trevanions. New York : St. Martin's Press. 1979. 978-0-312-11135-9.
- 3.Bakewell, Michael. Augusta Leigh, Byron's half sister : a biography. London : Pimlico. 2000. 978-0-7126-6560-5.
- 4.Ohri, Indu. The Cultural Anxieties in Victorian Women's Ghost Stories, 1847-1920. libraetd.lib.virginia.edu.
- 5.Jump, John D. (John Davies). Byron, a symposium. New York : Barnes & Noble Books. 1975. 978-0-06-493436-7.
- 6.Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. What did Miss Darrington see? : an anthology of feminist supernatural fiction. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York : Distributed by the Talman Co. 1989. 978-1-55861-005-7.
- 7.Champion, H.J.E. Ada Trevanion’s "A Ghost Story": Queered Haunting and the "Mysterious Inmate" of Woodford House. Victorian Review. 44. 2. 174–177. 2018. 1923-3280.
- 8.Open Court Publishing Co. The Academy 1882-02-25: Vol 21 Iss 512. 1882-02-25.
- 9.Allibone, Samuel Austin. A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century. Containing over forty-six thousand articles (authors), with forty indexes of subjects. Philadelphia Lippincott. 1908.
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