Lifespan: 1849-1905
Nationality: English
Genres:
Types of Work: Novels
Contemporaries: Dorothea Gerard
Style: Most novels set in Eastern Europe
Bio: Jane Emily Gerard was born in Scotland on May 7, 1849 to Archibald and Euphemia Gerard. Her sister, Dorothea, was also an novelist.
Emily's collection of Transylvanian folklore influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula. She compiled the stories while her husband, the Austro-Hungarian calvary officer, Chevalier Miecislas de Laszowski, was stationed in the Romanian province.
She spent many of her adult years in Austria, where she met and befriended Mark Twain.
She died on January 11, 1905.
Novels:
Reata; or, What' in a Name (written with her sister)
Beggar My Neighbor (written with her sister)
The Waters of Hercules (written with her sister)
Transylvanian Superstitions
The Land Beyond the Forest
Bis
A Secret Mission
A Sensitive Plant (written with her sister)
The Voice of a Flower
A Foreigner
An Electric Shock
Tragedy of a Nose
The Extermination of Love
The Heron's Tower
Honour's Glassy Bubble, A story of Three Generations