Erminda Rentoul Esler

Person

born 1860, died 1924 (age 64)

gender: female
born in: Manorcunningham, Ireland
died in: Hither Green, United Kingdom
vocations: author, publisher

education: Berlin, Germany | Nîmes, France | Belfast, United Kingdom

residence: Belfast, United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | Manorcunningham, Ireland

author of the following texts (32):

A Philanderer (Published in: 1898)
A Singer of the South (Published in: 1899)
A Tardy Wooing (Published in: 1895)
Alice (Published in: 1894)
An Idealist (Published in: 1895)
An Interlude (Published in: 1898)
Bessie (Published in: 1894)
Betty's Luck (Published in: 1894)
Black Art (Published in: 1898)
Daisy Wynn (Published in: 1894)
Ellens Bejlere (Published in: 1913)
Eunice (Published in: 1894)
Good for Nothing (Published in: 1894)
Her Sole Investment (Published in: 1898)
In Summer Weather (Published in: 1898)
In the Waning Year (Published in: 1895)
Jabez Gaunt’s Testament (Published in: 1895)
Jamie Myles’s Vehicle (Published in: 1895)
John Conway’s Narrative (Published in: 1898)
Kitty (Published in: 1894)
Kittys friare (Published in: 1912)
Le Secret de Madame Jessop (Published in: 1899)
Linnet's Lover (Published in: 1894)
Miss Chrissie’s Protégé (Published in: 1895)
Naomi (Published in: 1894)
Nemesis and Mrs Myles (Published in: 1898)
Niall (Published in: 1898)
One Lesson in Life (Published in: 1895)
The Mystery Connected with Mrs Jessop (Published in: 1898)
Time, The Alchemist (Published in: 1895)
Tom’s Outing (Published in: 1898)
Une Idylle Au Vilage (Published in: 1906)

subject of the following texts (8):

Books Old and New: Mrs. Esler’s ‘The Way they Loved at Grimpat’ (Published in: 1899)
Collections of Love Stories (Published in: 1896)
Daily Independent: Dublin, Monday, March 4, 1895 [Review of Esler] (Published in: 1895)
Half-hours in the Library (October 1894) (Published in: 1894)
Literature: Novels and Stories - The Way They Loved At Grimpat: Village Idylls by E. Rentoul Esler (Published in: 1893)
Mrs Esler’s New Stories (Published in: 1895)
Mrs. Rentoul Esler: The Characteristics of Her Writing (Published in: 1902)
The Diner Out [Review of ‘Mid Green Pastures] (Published in: 1895)

publications (16):

Glasgow Herald (Published in: 1893 )

The Way They Loved at Grimpat. Village Idylls. (Published in: 1894 )

The Young Woman (Published in: 1894 )

'Mid Green Pastures (Published in: 1895 )

Irish Independent (Published in: 1895 )

The Young Woman (Published in: 1895 )

The Queen (Published in: 1895 )

Review of Reviews (Published in: 1896 )

Youth at the Prow (Published in: 1898 )

The Leisure Hour (Published in: 1899 )

The Irish Homestead (Published in: 1899 )

Bibliothèque Universelle et Revue Suisse (Published in: 1899 )

The Leisure Hour (Published in: 1902 )

La Bonne Revue (Published in: 1906 )

Kittys friare (Published in: 1912 )

Ellens Bejlere (Published in: 1913 )

manager at the following publishers:

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. (founded in: 1825 closure in: 1964)

Fr. Jensens Bogtrykkeri

Nordiska Förlaget (founded in: 1910 closure in: 1930)

Religious Tract Society (founded in: 1799 closure in: 1935)

Éditions de La Bonne Revue (founded in: 1905 closure in: 1968)

Bureau de la Bibliothèque Universelle (founded in: 1846 closure in: 1924)

text settings:

A Vicarage. Likely Grimpat. Mentions London and Dartmoor.

Fictional village in England | United Kingdom

Mentions a ‘fashionable watery-place’ and a town near Manchester.

Mentions a “village” (likely Grimpat) and Nutford the fictional bigger town near Grimpat which features also in other short stories from previous collections.

Set between London and Cornwall

Set in Fordham, probably Fordham, Cambridgeshire. Mentions London as well.

Set in Grimpat, a fictional village likely located in Ulster.

Set in Ireland.

Set in London, but some characters are from Grimpat and Nutford, England.

Set in Sudbury, Suffolk, England

Set on the island of Capri, Italy, off the coast of Naples.

Unclear setting, likely England. One of the characters mentions returning to England from Africa.

publication locations:

Copenhagen

Die

Dublin