Lifespan: 1791-1844
Nationality: Irish
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Types of Work: Novels, poetry
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(From Wikipedia)
Alicia LeFanu (born 1791) was an Irish poet and writer. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Sheridan and Captain Henry Le Fanu, and a granddaughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Sheridan. She died, unmarried, sometime after 1844, in Dublin. She was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, Aungier Street, Dublin, but the exact date of death is unknown.
*Among her novels and books of verse, she also completed a biography of her novelist grandmother, Frances Sheridan in 1826
Novels:
Strathallan (1816)
Leolin Abbey (1819)
Don Juan De Las Sierras: A Romance (1823)
Tales of a Tourist (1824)
Henry the Fourth of France: A Romance (1826)
Helen Monteagle