Edith Sichel

MEC had a complicated relationship with her poor and working-class students. Although reading Tolstoy inspired her charitable acts, the idea of freely mixing with the lower classes repelled her. She eventually settled on the controlled...

EL dedicated to E. S., her friend Edith Sichel , a privately printed volume of poetry, The Point of View: Some Thoughts and Disputations, which was produced to benefit some of the fishing...

Educated at home, EL liked literature and natural history best, and from an early age she aspired to discover a species new to science. She also developed the lifelong interest in Irish history and politics...

An inquest found that he had died by falling out of a window, and noted that he had been kept under restrait for some time. His Times obituary termed Lord Cloncurry's death an accident. Later...

Her friend Edith Sichel described EL as having a dual nature, combining both practical intellect and artistic passion. Sichel claimed that Lawless possessed a concrete mind with a turn for affairs; with a man's business...

The book was not a great success. Edith Sichel calls it a reckless fantasia, the record of seven young men's adventures, that was too wild an attempt to take with the public, and was more...

As in many of her later novels, EL represents the speech of Gaelic-speaking people not with the Irish language itself but with the flavour of the people's speech, with all its Irish derivations.Val Mulkerns

EL 's favourite occupation at Hazelhatch was gardening. The plants which she tended (while Lady Sarah admired the results) were described by her friend and biographer Edith Sichel as her children, possessing individual characters...

EL 's final work, a book of poetry which she was revising when she died, was The Inalienable Heritage, privately printed after her death with a preface provided by Edith Sichel .

William Ewart Gladstone originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but...

Edith Sichel believed that EL 's poetry is notable for the way she united poetry with science, in the sense that her verse is always written in the pursuit of truth, and out of curiosity...

Her second novel, A Millionaire's Cousin, was published anonymously too, in 1885. Both appeared in the UnitedStates as well as in England. Both are set at least partly in London, and both protagonists...

In 1898 her friend Lady Sarah Spencer arranged for the private publication of Atlantic Rhymes and Rhythms, EL 's first work of poetry, which appeared under her initials. Much of her later writing is...

Edith Sichel edited, with a memoir, a posthumous collection entitled Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge .