Esther Meynell
Esther Hallam Meynell née Moorhouse was an English writer.Biography
Meynell was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. Her father was Samuel Moorhouse. She married Gerard Tuke Meynell and was the niece by marriage of the poet and suffragist Alice Meynell. She died in Ditchling, a village near Brighton, Sussex.
She is best known for The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach, a fictional autobiography of Anna Magdalena Bach, the wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and for Nelson’s Lady Hamilton, about the life of Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. She also wrote many books about the County of Sussex, where she lived. Her novel Time's Door belongs to the genre of fantastic fiction; it features a violinist who "timeslips" to the 18th century where he becomes involved with Bach.Works
As E. Hallam Moorhouse
- Nelson's Lady Hamilton,
- Samuel Pepys: Administrator, Observer, Gossip,
- Letters Of The English Seamen,
- Wordsworth,
- Nelson In England: A Domestic Chronicle,
- Sea Magic,
As Esther Meynell
- The Story Of Hans Andersen,
- The Little Chronicle Of Magdalena Bach,
- Grave Fairytale,
- Quintet,
- Bach,
- Time's Door,
- Sussex Cottage,
- Building A Cottage,
- Lucy And Amades,
- English Spinster: A Portrait,
- A Woman Talking,
- Country Ways,
- The Young Lincoln,
- Cottage Tale,
- Sussex,
- Portrait Of William Morris,
- Tale Told To Terry,
- Small Talk In Sussex,
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