Eden, Emily, 1797-1869
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Name (Latin)
Eden, Emily, 1797-1869
Other forms of name
Author of The semi-detached house, 1797-1869
E. E. (Emily Eden), 1797-1869
E., E. (Emily Eden), 1797-1869
Eden, Hon. Emily, 1797-1869
Semi-detached house, Author of, 1797-1869
Date of birth
1797-03-03
Date of death
1869-08-05
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Fiction
Occupation
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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MARC
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Sources of Information
- Oxford DNB online, viewed 7 January 2016(Eden, Emily (1797-1869), writer, was born on 3 March 1797 at Old Palace Yard, Westminster; her brother George was appointed governor-general of India in 1835. He was unmarried, and Eden and [her sister] Frances accompanied him to Calcutta in March 1836 and carried out the official duties of the governor's lady, with Emily, the elder, assuming chief responsibility; returned to England in 1842; published: Portraits of the People and Princes of India (1844); The Semi-Detached House, Eden's second novel, was published anonymously in 1859; The Semi-Attached Couple ([1860]); her best-known book, Up the Country (1866); died on 5 August 1869 at Fountain House, Richmond)
- The semi-attached couple, 1860:t.p. (by the Author of 'The semi-detached house') p. iv (preface signed E.E.)
- Her Up the country ... 1866.
- Her Indian portfolio, 2012:t.p. (Emily Eden) p. 1 (b. Mar. 3, 1797, Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London) p. 382 (d. Aug. 5, 1869)