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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Esther Bakewell

Author: Esther Bakewell (1798–1873)

Biography: Esther Bakewell was born in 1798, the daughter of the geologist Robert Bakewell and his first wife Apphia Simpson. She wrote mainly for children and one novel for adults Glenwood Manor-House (1857). She never married and died in 1873 in Hampstead.

Fiction Titles:

  1. Glenwood Manor-House: A Novel.  1 vol.  London: Arthur Hall, 1857.