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The Purcell papers Volume I
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A noble Huguenot family, owning considerable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owing to their possessing influential relatives at the court of Louis the Fourteenth, were allowed to quit their country for ... more »England, unmolested, with their personal property. We meet with John Le Fanu de Sequeville and Charles Le Fanu de Cresseron, as cavalry officers in William the Third's army; Charles being so distinguished a member of the King's staff that he was presented with William's portrait from his master's own hand. He afterwards served as a major of dragoons under Marlborough. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, William Le Fanu was the sole survivor of his family. He married Henrietta Raboteau de Puggibaut, the last of another great and noble Huguenot family, whose escape from France, as a child, by the aid of a Roman Catholic uncle in high position at the French court, was effected after adventures of the most romantic danger. Joseph Le Fanu, the eldest of the sons of this marriage who left issue, held the office of Clerk of the Coast in Ireland. He married for the second time Alicia, daughter of Thomas Sheridan and sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his brother, Captain Henry Le Fanu, of Leamington, being united to the only other sister of the great wit and orator. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, né le 28 août 1814 à Dublin, où il est mort le 10 février 1873, est un écrivain irlandais. C'est l'un des auteurs majeurs du récit fantastique. Les premiers succès L'année 1851 marque une étape charnière dans la carrière du prolifique écrivain avec la publication de son premier recueil de nouvelles fantastiques : Ghost Stories and Tales of Mysteries. À la suite du décès du père de Susanna, Joseph et son épouse s'installent dans la maison paternelle dont Susanna a hérité au 18 Merrion Square. Le Fanu y passera le reste de sa vie. C'est dans ce chic quartier résidentiel de Dublin que Le Fanu fait la connaissance du chevalier Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, chirurgien irlandais, et de Jane Francesca Elgee dite « Speranza », poétesse et nationaliste irlandaise. Ce fait, bien qu'anecdotique, nous semble néanmoins intéressant à noter, puisque ce couple d'amis aura comme enfant un autre écrivain, appelé à devenir l'enfant terrible des lettres irlandaises tant par son ?uvre que par sa vie privée, Oscar Wilde. L'épouse de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Susanna, présente les premiers signes de la maladie qui l'emportera sept ans plus tard. Le 1er août 1854 naît George Brinslay, qui illustrera plus tard les romans de son père et réalisera les quelques rares portraits de lui qui nous soient parvenus.

ISBN-13: 9781540412065
ISBN-10: 1540412067
Publication Date: 11/14/2016
Pages: 134
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