Isabella Harwood
British novelist and playwright
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| Intro | British novelist and playwright | |
| A.K.A. | Ross Neil Isabella Neil Harwood | |
| A.K.A. | Ross Neil Isabella Neil Harwood | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Writer Playwright Novelist | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | |
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| Birth | 14 June 1837, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom | |
| Death | 29 May 1888 (aged 50 years) | |
| Star sign | Gemini |
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Biography
Isabella Harwood or Ross Neil (14 June 1837 – 29 May 1888) was a British novelist who also wrote dramas in verse.
Biography
Harwood was probably born in Dorset in 1837 where her parents Phillip Harwood and his wife Isabella Neil lived. Phillip Harwood was then a Unitarian minister in Bridport.
Between 1864 and 1870 she wrote four sensational novels which were published without attribution. Between 1871 and 1883 she wrote a number of unfashionable blank verse dramas which were said to be readable. Two were produced in Edinburgh and London but they were not favourably received.
Harwood lived with her father in London and then in Hastings. She died in St Mary-in-the-Castle in 1888 in Hastings a year after her father.
Works
Novels
- Abbot's Cleve
- Carleton Grange
- Raymond's Heroine
- Kathleen
- The Heir Expectant
- Plays
- Lady Jane Grey; Inez, or, The Bride of Portugal
Plays
- The Cid; The King and the Angel; Duke for a Day; or The Tailor of Brussels
- Elfinella, or, Home from Fairyland; Lord and Lady Russell
- Arabella Stuart; The Heir of Linne; Tasso
- Eglantine
- Andrea the Painter; Claudia's Choice; Orestes; Pandora