Elizabeth Julia Hasell (14/17 January 1830 – 17 January 1887) was a

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miscellaneous writer and literary reviewer.

Early life and education

Elizabeth Julia Hasell was born at

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country house, near

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, England, on 14 January 1830. She was the second daughter of Dorothea and Edward Williams Hasell who lived at Dalemain, and were the lord and lady of the

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and

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s. She was carefully educated at home. At the same time she taught herself, with little or no assistance, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese. At an early age, she was writing plays and later narrative poems for her own amusement.

Career

About 1858, she began to contribute to ''

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'' and also to the ''

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'' with reviews of notable publications such as Lord Derby's translation of ''

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'',

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's ''

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'' (1859), ''

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'' in 1864, and

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in 1885, and

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's ''Poems'' (1869). For some time, her attention was largely concentrated on

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. Subsequently, she devoted herself chiefly to the literature of

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, of which she acquired extensive knowledge. After writing sundry magazine articles on Spanish and Portuguese authors, she compiled two of the most scholarly volumes in the series of ''

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'' -those on

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and

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- both published in 1877. She also reviewed occasionally in the ''Athenaeum''. Besides pursuing her studies, she gave a large portion of her time to promoting education and the general welfare of the district in which she lived, walking long distances across the hills to teach in village schools or deliver extempore addresses, in which she showed a quite unusual facility. Her philanthropic endeavors probably hastened her death, as in her desire to do good to a scattered population, she made light of fatigue and exposure to rain and cold. A deeply religious woman, she was well read in theology. She died at Dalemain on 16 November 1887.

Selected works

* ''The Rock: and other short lectures on o of Holy Scripture'', 1867 * ''Short Family Prayers'', 1879, 1884 * ''Bible Partings'', 1883 * A devotional work, ''Via Crucis et Lucis'', was the last book she wrote.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasell, Elizabeth Julia 1830 births 1887 deaths 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers British literary critics British women literary critics