GE
's mother, Isobel (George) Dunne
, was Welsh. She had a great-uncle who had become a successful admiral in Chile.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
12
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
135
Isobel died on 26 March 1875, when Mary Chavelita was fifteen...
Residence
George Egerton
When his wife
died, the father
of Chavelita Dunne (later GE
) sold the family's first Dublin home and found lodgings in Leeson Street.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
13-14
Textual Production
George Egerton
Here GE
first used her pseudonym, George Egerton, which she took from her mother
's surname and the first Christian name of her husband
(whom she had married two years before this).
Stetz, Margaret. “Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material”. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol.
