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Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817) was an Anglo-Irish writer. She was the daughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan. She was the sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Betsy Sheridan and the aunt of writer Alicia LeFanu (with whom she is sometimes confused). [1]
Alicia Le Fanu was the daughter of Betsy Sheridan and Captain Henry Le Fanu, and a granddaughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Sheridan. She had a younger sister, Harriet.
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oseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814 and died in the same city in 1873. He trained as a lawyer, but is only known today as an influential writer of Gothic and Sensational fiction. His forebears were of Huguenot extraction and were part of the Anglican Ascendancy, the Protestant elite that ruled Ireland. The family’s status was consider...
e Fanu is one of the outstanding writers of the Victorian ghost and horror story. Although he relied on his Sensational fiction for economic reasons, his Gothic tales were highly regarded at the time of publication, and continued to be resonate in the twentieth century. His vampire tale, ‘Carmilla’ (1872), is one of the sources of Bram Stoker’s Dra...
he foremost champion of modern criticism of Le Fanu was the scholar and small-press publisher, Gary Crawford (1953–2020). Crawford published a ‘bio-bibliography’ in 1995 and issued a concise edition, in collaboration with Brian Showers, in 2011. These lists were completed by an on-line bibliography, which was kept up to date as new material was pub...
Note: Full details of Le Fanu’s work can be found in Crawford’s bibliographies. Primary Works, arranged chronologically, published during and directly after Le Fanu’s death. The Cock and Anchor. 3 Vols. Dublin: W. Curry, 1845. The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1847. Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery. Dublin: James M...
Allen, Nicholas. ‘Sheridan Le Fanu and the Spectral Empire.’ The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Eds. Helen Conrad O’Briain and Julie Anne Stevens. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. 112–123. Cooke, Simon. ‘“A Regular Contributor”: Le Fanu’s Short Stories, All the Year Round and the Influence of Dickens.’ Reflections in a G...
Born in 1753; died in 1817; daughter of Frances Sheridan (1724–1766, novelist and dramatist) and Thomas Sheridan (a well-known actor-manager); sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) and Elizabeth Lefanu (1758–1837); married Joseph Lefanu or Le Fanu (1814–1873, a novelist, journalist, and brother of Henry and Philip Lefanu, a ...
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FS 's daughter Alicia Lefanu adapted Eugenia and Adelaide for the stage, and may have arranged its publication.
Alicia LeFanu. LeFanu, Alicia, elder daughter of Thomas Sheridan, and favourite sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, married Joseph LeFanu, brother of preceding. She wrote numerous works, among which may be named The Flowers, a Fairy Tale (1810), The Sons of Erin, a Comedy (1812).
