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Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings by the Time; Volume 1
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280 pages, Hardcover
Published November 17, 2015
About the author
Grace Rhys
43 books3 followersGrace Rhys (née Little, 1865–1929) was an Irish writer brought up in Boyle, County Roscommon.
Joseph Bennet Little, her landowner father, lost his money through gambling and, after receiving a good education from governesses, she and her sisters had to move to London as adults to earn a living.
She was both wife and literary companion to Ernest Percival Rhys whom she met at a garden party given by Yeats. They married in 1891 and sometimes worked side by side in the British Museum. Her first novel, Mary Dominic, was published in 1898. Several of her stories have an Irish setting, including The Charming of Estercel (1904) set in Elizabethan Ireland, which was illustrated by Howard Pyle in Harper's Magazine.
Her other work includes The Wooing of Sheila (1901), The Bride (1909), and Five Beads on a String (1907), a book of essays. She also wrote poetry and books for children, and had a son and two daughters of her own.
The Rhys were known for entertaining writers and critics at their London home on Sunday afternoons. Grace died at a hotel in Washington DC while accompanying her husband on an American lecture tour.
Joseph Bennet Little, her landowner father, lost his money through gambling and, after receiving a good education from governesses, she and her sisters had to move to London as adults to earn a living.
She was both wife and literary companion to Ernest Percival Rhys whom she met at a garden party given by Yeats. They married in 1891 and sometimes worked side by side in the British Museum. Her first novel, Mary Dominic, was published in 1898. Several of her stories have an Irish setting, including The Charming of Estercel (1904) set in Elizabethan Ireland, which was illustrated by Howard Pyle in Harper's Magazine.
Her other work includes The Wooing of Sheila (1901), The Bride (1909), and Five Beads on a String (1907), a book of essays. She also wrote poetry and books for children, and had a son and two daughters of her own.
The Rhys were known for entertaining writers and critics at their London home on Sunday afternoons. Grace died at a hotel in Washington DC while accompanying her husband on an American lecture tour.
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