Item Detail
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Valentine, Laura (1814-1899)
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née Laura Belinda Charlotte Jewry; Miss Jewry; Mrs. L. Valentine; Mrs. R(ichard) Valentine; Laura Jewry Valentine; Laura B. J. Valentine; L. V.; Mrs. Valentine; Mrs. S. Valentine pseudonym: Aunt Louisa
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poet, SF writer, novelist, children's writer, editor
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English; baptized in Portsea, Hampshire; spent time in India
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daughter of Mary Ann Ross & Adm. Henry Augustus Jewry; wife of Revd Richard John Scobell Valentine
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Frederick Warne & Co.
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- Cushing, William. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. N.Y.: T. Y. Crowell & Company, [1867, 1885, etc.].
- Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/)
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (www.isfdb.org)
- Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. © 2022 Troy J. Bassett (http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/)
- FamilySearch
- Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)
- HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/)
- Library of Congress Authorities (https://authorities.loc.gov/)
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• wrote Baby Bianca, or, The Venetians The Cup and the Lip The Forest and the Fortress Harry Brightside Kirkholme Priory The Ransom The Tide of Life The Vassal • compiled Eastern Tales Our Favourite Animal Book