Selina Bunbury

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Selina Bunbury (1802–1882) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and traveler.

Early life

Selina Bunbury was born at Kilsaran Rectory near Castlebellingham, County Louth.[1][2] She was a twin, and one of fifteen children of a Protestant minister, Rev. Henry Bunbury.[3][4] The Bunbury family moved to Dublin in 1819, and to Liverpool about 1830.[5]

Career

Bunbury was a prolific author,[1] writing nearly a hundred volumes of both fiction and non-fiction, for young readers and a general audience, beginning with Visit to my Birthplace (1821).[6] Her writing had "a strong proselytizing and moral component".[4] "Miss Bunbury is an experienced, an observant, and a discriminating traveller," commented an 1853 reviewer, "with but one fault we can discover — a violent Tractarian tinge, which, however, does not render her book less amusing."[7]

Bunberry traveled from Stockholm to Rome in 1847 and 1848, becoming a first-hand witness to revolution and upheaval in several parts of Europe.[8] Her travel writing included My Early Adventures During the Peninsular Campaign of Napoleon (1834),[9] Evenings in the Pyrenees (1845),[10] A visit to the catacombs, or first Christian cemeteries of Rome, and a midnight visit to mount Vesuvius (1849),[11] Evelyn, or, A journey from Stockholm to Rome in 1847-48 (1849),[12] Life in Sweden (1853),[13] A Summer in Northern Europe (1856),[14] Russia After the War (1857)[15] and My First Travels (1859).[16]

Some of her books continued to be published long after her death in 1882, including American editions of Fanny, the flower girl, or Honesty rewarded (1911).[17]

Personal life

Bunbury kept house for her twin brother until he married in 1845.[5] She died in 1882 at her nephew's home in Cheltenham, aged 80 years.[1][8]

Selected works

  • A Visit to My Birthplace (1821)[6]
  • Cabin Conversations and Castle Scenes (1827)[3]
  • My Foster Brother (1827)[3]
  • Stories from Church History (1828)[18]
  • Annot and her Pupil (1829)[19]
  • Gertrude and her family (1830)[20]
  • My Early Adventures During the Peninsular Campaign of Napoleon (1834)[9]
  • The Abbey of Innesmoyle: A Story of Another Century (1839)[21]
  • Coombe Abbey: An Historical Tale of the Reign of James the First (1843)[22]
  • The Star of the Court, Or, the Maid of Honour and Queen of England, Anne Boleyn (1844)[23]
  • The castle and the hovel: or, The two sceptics (1844)[24]
  • Evenings in the Pyrenees (1845)[10]
  • The Indian Babes in the Wood, taken from fact (1845)[25]
  • Glory, Glory, Glory and other narratives (1847)[26]
  • Evelyn, or, A journey from Stockholm to Rome in 1847-48 (1849)[12]
  • The blind clergyman, and his little guide (1850)[27]
  • The brother's sacrifice; A French story (1851)[28]
  • Life in Sweden (1853)[13]
  • Our Own Story (1856)[29]
  • A Summer in Northern Europe (1856)[14]
  • Russia After the War (1857)[15]
  • Sir Guy d'Esterre (1858)[30]
  • My First Travels (1859)[16]
  • Madame Constance (1861)[31]
  • The violet-seller, or, Honesty and industry (1861)[32]
  • Tales (1862)[33]
  • Florence Manvers (1865)[34]
  • Lady Flora (1870)[31]

References

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