Romer Wilson ( born Romer Wilson , Sheffield , December 26, 1891 - Lausanne , January 11, 1930 ) is a British novelist.
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| Romer wilson | |
| Birth name | Florence Roma Muir Wilson |
| Date of Birth | December 26, 1891 |
| Place of Birth | Sheffield , UK |
| Date of death | January 11, 1930 (38 years old) |
| Place of death | Lausanne , Switzerland |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | prose writer |
| Years of creativity | 1919-1930 |
| Genre | prose |
| Language of Works | English |
| Awards | Hawthorne Prize ( 1921 ) |
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Biography
The daughter of Sheffield lawyer Arnold Muir Wilson and Amy Letitia Dearden [1] .
Real name - Florence Roma Muir Wilson [2] , studied at West Heath School for girls in , studied law at the Cambridge , in 1923 In the year she married an American, Edward Joseph O'Brien (3) [4] . In the 1920s she became known as the author of novels, short stories, plays, as well as biographies of Emily Bronte . Compiled a collection of fairy tales of the peoples of the world, the most popular was their publication called Red Magic (1930). In 1921 she received the Hawthorne Prize for the novel The Death of Society ( 5) .
Since 1928, she lived with her husband in Locarno , died of tuberculosis on January 11, 1930 in Lausanne .
Bibliography
Novels
- Martin Schüler (1919)
- If All These Young Young Men (1919)
- The Death of Society (1921)
- The Grand Tour of Alphonse Marichaud (1923)
- Dragon's Blood (pre-1926) [6]
- Greenlow (1927)
- Latterday Symphony (1927)
- The Hill of Cloves (1929)
Play
- The Social Climbers (1927)
Biographies
- All Alone: The Life and Private History of Emily Jane Brontë (1928)
Notes
- ↑ Martin Seymour-Smith, Andrew C. Kimmens. World authors, 1900-1950 . - HW Wilson, 1996 .-- T. 4 .-- P. 2914.
- ↑ Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins . - P. 511.
- ↑ Anne Commire. Women in World History. - Gale, 2001 .-- Vol. 16. - P. 634.
- ↑ Girton College Register: 1869-1946. - Privately printed for Girton College. - 1948. - P. 231.
- ↑ Henry Wysham Lanier, Josiah Carlton Titzell. The Author's Annual . - Payson & Clarke, 1929 .-- P. 77.
- ↑ Dragon's Blood: Conte de Fée Deuxième . - W. Collins, 1926. - 288 p.
Links
- ROMER WILSON Orlando: Women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present . Cambridge University Press . Date of treatment April 1, 2014.
- ROMER WILSON everything2.com. Date of treatment April 3, 2014.
- Romer Wilson Biography . Dictionary of Literary Biography . Date of treatment April 2, 2014.