Draft:Emily Jolly
Emily Jolly | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 16, 1833  |
| Died | October 15, 1917 |
| Occupations | Novelist, editor |
| Father | Thomas Jolly |
| Relatives | William Cracknell Jolly |
Emily Jolly (16 September 1833 – 15 October 1917) was a British novelist who published anonymously or under the name Marian James. She was probably best known for her novel Caste (1857).[1]
Emily Jolly was born on September 16, 1833 in Margate. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jolly, a two-term Mayor of Bath. Her brother William Cracknell Jolly also served as Mayor of Bath.[2]
Jolly's career began with the serialization of A Wife's Story in Charles Dickens' Household Words in 1855. Dickens wrote to her that the story held "such great merit and unusual promise" but suggested she change the "unnecessarily painful" ending, which she did. She later contributed "The Sisters" to Household Words in 1856 and "An Experience" to Dickens' All the Year Round in 1869, the latter of which Dickens wrote to her would "always stand apart in my mind from any other story I ever read."[3] She contributed to other publications including Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, which published her story "My First and Last Novel," about the social pressure facing a female novelist, in 1858, and her novella Witch-Hampton Hall: Five Scenes in the Life of Its Last Lady in 1864.
Jolly, Emily. “All in the Wrong, or, the Tamer Tamed: A Story without a Moral.” Blackwood’s Edinburgh
Magazine, vol. 92, no. 566, December 1862,
She contributed her stories
Career
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Awards and honors
[edit]Emily Jolly won the .
Emily Jolly was nominated for the .
Death and legacy
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Mr. Arle: A Novel. 2 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1856.[2]
- Caste. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857.[2]
- Katherine Evering. London, 1857.[5]
- A Lord of the Creation. 1857.[1]
- Love in Light and Shadow: Tales. 2 vol. London: Groombridge, 1857.[2]
- Bond and Free. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860.[2]
- Entanglements: A Romance. 2 vol. London: Smith, Elder, 1862.[2]
- Cumworth House. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864.[2]
- Witch-Hampton Hall: Five Scenes in the Life of Its Last Lady. 1864.[6] Blackwood's
- The Cypresses: A Romance. 2 vol. London: Bentley, 1865.[2]
- My Son's Wife. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867.[2]
- Pearl. 2 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1868.[2]
- Viola. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869.[2]
- Bruna's Revenge, and Other Tales. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1872.[2]
- Colonel Dacre. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1873.[2]
- Safely Married. 2 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1874.[2]
- A Wife's Story, and Other Tales. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1875.[2]
- (edited) The Life and Works of Sydney Dobell. 2 vol. London, 1878.[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 The Feminist companion to Literature in English : women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Internet Archive. London : Batsford. 1990. ISBN 978-0-7134-5848-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Author: Emily Jolly". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2026-04-24.
- ↑ Lohrli, Anne, ed. (2018). Household Words: a weekly journal 1850-1859 conducted by Charles Dickens. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-7705-6.
- ↑ Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 20 October 1917
- ↑ Alston, R. C. (1990). A checklist of women writers, 1801-1900 : fiction, verse, drama. Internet Archive. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-7295-5.
- ↑ Braun, Gretchen (2008). ""Paragon" and "Mad Wife": Emily Jolly's Fiction of Agency". Pacific Coast Philology. 43: 36–54. ISSN 0078-7469.
- ↑ Westwater, Martha (1992). The spasmodic career of Sydney Dobell. Internet Archive. Lanham, MD : University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-8579-2.
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