Ellinor Davenport Adams (1858–1913)
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- Gangbare naam
- Adams, Ellinor Davenport
- Officiële naam
- Adams, Ellinor Lily Davenport
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Adams, E.D. (published name)
Adams, E. Davenport (published name) - Geboortedatum
- 1858
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1913
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK - Land (voor op de kaart)
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Putney, London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Putney, London, England, UK
- Beroepen
- children's book author
- Relaties
- Adams, W. H. Davenport (father)
Adams, William Davenport (brother) - Korte biografie
- Ellinor Davenport Adams (1858–1913) - sometimes credited as E. Davenport Adams, or E.D. Adams - was a late-nineteenth, early twentieth-century British author, who penned approximately twenty children's books. Many of her stories were aimed at girls, and straddled the line between the Victorian morality tale and the sweeter, more light-hearted fare that followed.
Adams was born in Putney, London, in 1859, the daughter of nineteenth-century journalist and author W.H. (William Henry) Davenport Adams. Her eldest brother was William Davenport Adams, also a journalist and author, and the creator of the Dictionary of English Literature (1877). Her sister Florence likewise worked as a journalist, and wrote plays for children. Adams began writing in her late twenties. She died in 1913. (sources: The Encyclopaedia of Girls' School Stories, The "At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction" website)
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- #430,838
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- 2.3
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At a scant sixty-three pages, Ellinor Davenport Adams' Little Greycoat is a brief chapter-book, one clearly intended for younger children than the readers of such works as Colonel Russell's Baby. I found the central narrative dilemma - the rivalry between Molly and Ivy, and their competition for the friendship of the eponymous Little Greycoat - fairly uninteresting, even though I recognized the themes as ones that ring true, in the lives of many young girls. What rang less true was the almost saintly nature of Little Greycoat, who only ever seems interested in being a peacemaker between the other two girls. Leaving that aside, of the three books I have read from this author, this is probably the one I have enjoyed least. It did not have the emotional power (or melodrama) of Colonel Russell's Baby, nor the gorgeous production values of The Disagreeable Duke: A Christmas Whimsicality for Holiday Boys and Girls, and I'm not sure I'd really recommend it, unless you are (like me) interested in this author's work.… (meer)