Lifespan: 1806-1876
Nationality: English
Types of Work: novels, poetry, travelogue, short stories
Bio:
Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger was born in Piccadilly, London on 11 November 1806. She was the only child of the Rev. Lacelles Iremonger, the prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, and Harriett Gambier.
She married Sir William Abraham Chatterton of Castle Mahon, Country Cork, Ireland on 3 August 1824. During the Great Irish Famine, her husband was deprived of his rents and the family was forced to move to a smaller home in Dorset. Her husband died in 1855.
She married again, in 1859, to Edward Heneage Dering, who was himself an author. The couple both converted to Catholicism later in life.
Georgiana's first book, Aunt Dorothy's Tales, was published anonymously in 1837. She wrote a series of novels, short stories, poems, and travelogues before her death on 6 February 1876.
Novels:
Aunt Dorothy's Tales (1837)
Allanston, or the Infidel (1843)
Lost Happiness, or the Effects of a Lie (1845)
Compensation (1856)
Life and Its Realities (1857)
The Heiress and her Lovers (1863)
Quagmire Ahead (1864)
A Plea for Happiness and Hope (1867)
County Coteries (1868)
The Lost Bride (1872)
Won at Last (1874)
Misgiving (1875)
Convictions (1875)