Esther Bakewell
Esther Bakewell | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 6, 1798  |
| Died | July 21, 1873 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Father | Robert Bakewell |
| Relatives | Frederick Bakewell |
Esther Bakewell (January 6, 1798 – July 21, 1873) was an English novelist and children's book writer.
Esther Bakewell was born on January 6, 1798 in Wakefield, the fifth child of Robert Bakewell and his first wife Apphia Simpson. Her father was a pioneering geologist and her younger brother Frederick Collier Bakewell was an inventor. Little is known of her life, other than she lived with Frederick's family and died on July 21, 1873 in Hampstead.[1][2]
Bakewell wrote a single novel, Glenwood Manor-House (1857). Most of her writing was for children, including a book of stories called The Book of One Syllable (1842) and a boarding school story, Eagle Cliff (1843). She contributed the story "My First Place" to the Jan. 10, 1852 issue of Charles Dickens' Household Words,[2] about a servant girl falsely accused of theft, a theme that reappeared in Glenwood Manor-House.[3]
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[edit]- ↑ Bakewell, B. G. (1896). The family book of Bakewell, Page, Campbell: being some account of the descendants of John Bakewell, of Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England. Pittsburgh: WM. G. Johnston & Co. pp. 62–63.
- 1 2 Parrott, Jeremy (2018). "Lohrli Revisited: Newly Identified Contributors to Household Words". Dickens Quarterly. 35 (2): 114. ISSN 0742-5473. JSTOR 48599178.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Darton, Lawrence (2004). The Dartons: an annotated check-list of children's books issued by two publishing houses, 1787-1876. London: British Library Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 978-0-7123-4749-5.
- ↑ "Author: Esther Bakewell". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
- ↑ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1891). 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: J. B. Lippincott.