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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Eliza Kerr

Author: Eliza Kerr (1858–1832)

Alternate Name(s): Coates (married name)

Biography: Eliza Kerr was born around September 1858 in Lowthestown, Co. Fermanagh, the daughter of Methodist minister Robert Kerr. As a teenager, she wrote her first novel The Golden City (1876) and she would steadily continue writing into the twentieth century. In 1883, she married civil servant William Coates and the couple moved to London where he worked in the War Office. The couple were childless. Late in life, they retired to Hastings where she died on 11 July 1932.

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References: British Census (1891, 1901, 1911, 1921); Probate

Fiction Titles:

  1. The Golden City.  1 vol.  London: James Nisbet, 1876.
  2. Slieve Bloom.  1 vol.  London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1880.
  3. Kilkee.  1 vol.  Derby: Bemrose and Sons, 1880.
  4. Two Snowy Christmas Eves.  1 vol.  London: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, 1884.
  5. The Mystery of Grange Drayton.  1 vol.  London: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, 1884.
  6. The Secret of Ashton Manor House.  1 vol.  London: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, 1884.
  7. Two Saxon Maidens: Gytha: A Story of the Time of Baeda. Elgiva: A Story of the Time of Alfred the Great.  1 vol.  London: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, 1885.
  8. Keena Karmody.  1 vol.  London: Sunday School Union, 1887.
  9. Hazel Haldene.  1 vol.  London: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union, 1888.
  10. Rollica Reed.  1 vol.  London: Griffith and Farran, 1890.

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