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Mary Mills was born in London to Mary Elizabeth Mills, a servant of the Scottish poet and songwriter Dr Charles Mackay, her biological father, who was married to another woman at the time of young Mary's conception. [5] After his first wife died, he married Mary Elizabeth, whereupon their daughter Mary took the "Mackay" surname.
The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents is a 1796 Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe.It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (although she would go on to write the novel Gaston de Blondeville, it was only published posthumously in 1826).
Mary Elizabeth Lee (pen names, M.E.L. and A Friend; March 23, 1813 – September 23, 1849) was a 19th-century writer from the Southern United States. She produced prose, poetry, children's fiction, and translations. She contributed many short stories and poems to The Rosebud and other publications. [1] [2] Lee died in 1849.
Born in Italy, Elizabeth Lavenza was adopted by Victor's family.In the first edition (1818), she is the daughter of Victor's aunt and her Italian husband. After her mother's death, Elizabeth's father—intending to remarry—writes to Victor's father and asks if he and his wife would like to adopt the child and spare her being raised by a stepmother (as Mary Shelley had unhappily been).
The novel's protagonist being called Elena invited readers to wonder how much her story has in common with the author's. As Katherine Hill writes in the Paris Review : "Most autofiction trades on the understanding that the author is just playing, or just theorizing, and not really revealing herself, but Ferrante's work invites the opposite ...
Mary Elizabeth Hawker was born on 29 January 1848 at Inveraray, ... Dutch, and Italian. [1] She then published Cecilia de Noel, a ghost story, ... Her final book, ...
"The Italian Lesson," co-authored by Mary Trump, E. Jean Carroll and Jennifer Taub, is an unlikely book and genre for the trio, who are well known for their political and social commentary, as ...
the 15th-century Castello Brown in Portofino, where von Arnim wrote the novel. The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim.The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, and was probably the most widely read of her novels (as an English and American best seller in 1923 [1]).