Emily Lawless, With Essex in Ireland

Catherine Smith (Other)

Ed. by Anne Markey, Dublin City University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin), Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1890

Places

Ireland, Republic of (Eire) (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Historical
Novel

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Emily Lawless’s

With Essex in Ireland

was published in London in 1890, by Smith, Elder, & Co. It is an historical novel, based on the disastrous Irish campaign of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in 1599, and it is shaped by the playful subversions and ambiguities which characterise Lawless’s writing, particularly her novels set in Ireland. Its full title is

With Essex in Ireland; being extracts from a journal kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr Henry Harvey, sometime secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. With a preface by Oliver Maddox, M.A.

edited by the Honourable Emily Lawless

, and this pretence that Lawless had edited an authentic sixteenth-century document confused some contemporary reviewers and readers, including Gladstone, who believed that it was a…

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Citation: Smith, Catherine . "With Essex in Ireland". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34891, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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