Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936)
Autor(a) de Ships that Pass in the Night
About the Author
Image credit: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Obras de Beatrice Harraden
Things Will Take a Turn 11 cópias
New Book of the Fairies (Lupton) 3 cópias
Hilda Strafford; a California story 2 cópias
Master Roley 1 exemplar(es)
Search will find it out 1 exemplar(es)
A Bird of Passage and Other Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Umbrella Mender • FREE E-BOOK • 1 exemplar(es)
Spring Shall Plant 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Eighteen Stories For Girls 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Harraden, Beatrice
- Data de nascimento
- 1864-01-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1936-05-05
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, England, UK
- Educação
- Bedford College
Queen's College, London
Cheltenham Ladies College - Ocupação
- novelist
suffragist
short story writer
journalist
children's book author - Organizações
- Women's Social and Political Union
Women Writers' Suffrage League
Oxford English Dictionary - Pequena biografia
- Beatrice Harraden was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of a musical importer. She took classes in Dresden, Germany, and attended Cheltenham Ladies College before graduating with degrees in mathematics and the classics from Bedford College of the University of London. She travelled extensively in Europe and the USA and in 1893 found fame with her bestselling debut novel, Ships That Pass in the Night. Besides 17 novels, she also wrote short stories, books for children, and a play. She became a leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was an active and forceful campaigner for female suffrage. In 1908, she joined the Women Writers' Suffrage League and wrote articles for the suffragist newspaper Votes for Women. She joined the Tax Resistance League and refused to pay taxes on her royalties until women were given the right to vote. Her dedication to the cause was among her favorite topics, as were female friendship and music and musicians. Beatrice Harraden served as a reader for the Oxford English Dictionary, and this, too was reflected in her fiction: The Scholar’s Daughter (1906) was set among lexicographers.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 115
- Popularidade
- #170,830
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 38