Beatrice Harraden

Beatrice Harraden

Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) was a British writer and suffragette.

Born in London on 24 January 1864, Harraden studied in Dresden, at Cheltenham Ladies’ College in Gloucestershire and at Queen’s College and Bedford College in London, and received a bachelor’s degree. She travelled extensively in Europe and the United States and in 1893 found fame with her debut novel, Ships That Pass in the Night, a love story set in a tuberculosis sanatorium.

Harraden involved herself greatly with the women’s rights movement, joining the Women's Social and Political Union, the Women Writers' Suffrage League and Women’s Tax Resistance League and publishing her work in the suffragette paper Votes for Women. This involvement is reflected in much of her fiction. She also involved herself as a reader for the Oxford English Dictionary, and this, too is reflected in her fiction: "The Scholar’s Daughter" (1906) is set among lexicographers.cite book
last = Winchester
first = Simon
title = The Meaning of Everything
publisher = Oxford University Press
page = 213
year = 2003
isbn = 0192805762
]

In 1930, she received a civil list pension for her literary work. She died on 5 May 1936.

Selected Bibliography

* "Ships That Pass in the Night" (1893)
* "In Varying Moods" (short stories, 1894)
* "Hilda Stafford and The Remittance Man (Two Californian Stories)" (1897)
* "The Fowler" (1899)
* "The Scholar's Daughter" (1906)
* "Interplay" (1908)
* "Out of the Wreck I Rise" (1914)
* "The Guiding Thread" (1916)
* "Patuffa" (1923)
* "Rachel" (1926)
* "Search Will Find It Out" (1928)

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