Eleanora Louisa Hervey | |
|---|---|
| Born | Eleanora Louisa Montagu  16 November 1811 Liverpool |
| Died | 27 October 1903 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Thomas Kibble Hervey |
Eleanora Louisa Montagu Hervey (16 November 1811 – 27 October 1903) was a British poet, novelist, and travel writer.
Eleanora Louisa Hervey was born on 16 November 1811 in Liverpool, the daughter of George Conway Courtenay Montagu, son of the ornithologist George Montagu, and Margaret Green Wilkson. In 1843, she married poet and editor Thomas Kibble Hervey. [1][2]
Beginning in the 1830s she became a regular contributor of poetry to periodicals including Churchman's Family Magazine, Chambers's, Athenaeum, Once a Week, Ladies' Companion, and Illustrated London News, She was one of the many poets mentioned in Leigh Hunt's "Blue-Stocking Revels; or, the Feast of the Violets".[3] Her collection of interconnected stories, The Feasts of Camelot, with the Tales that were Told There (1863), is one of the earliest original works of fiction based on the Arthurian legends that was written by a woman.[4]
Eleanora Louisa Hervey died on 27 October 1903.[1]
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- ^ Lupack, Alan (1999). Arthurian Literature by Women. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-8153-3483-5.