Gertrude Parsons

Gertrude Parsons
Born 1812
Restormel
Died 12 February 1891
Teignmouth
Nationality British

Gertrude Parsons (1812 – 12 February 1891) was a Roman Catholic convert who wrote numerous works in the nineteenth century.

Life

Gertrude Hext was born in Restormel in 1812 in Cornwall. She converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1844 before she married Daniel Parsons the following year. Her husband was a curate.

Many of her works had underlying Catholic themes with a couple finding happiness in converting to this denomination or a girl who turns down her suitor because he is a Protestant. She also wrote Rhymes Gay and Grave in 1864. The following year Parsons edited and largely wrote a magazine for Catholics called Workman, or, Life and Leisure and later the Literary Workman in 1865. The magazine failed to get a loyal readership and the initially weekly but later monthly publication ceased in the same year as it was launched.[1]

Parsons died in Teignmouth in 1891.

Works

  1. Thornberry Abbey: a Tale of the Established Church, 1846
  2. Joe Baker, 1853.
  3. Edith Mortimer, or Trials of Life at Mortimer Manor, 1857.
  4. Emma's Cross: a Tale, 1859.
  5. George Morton, the Boy and the Man, 1859.
  6. Afternoons with Mrs. Maitland: a Book of Household Instruction, 1860.
  7. The Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1860.
  8. Dyrbington Court, or the Story of John Julian's Prosperity, 1861.
  9. Ruth Baynard's Story, 1861. # The Romance of Cleaveside, 1867, 3 vols.
  10. Ursula's Love Story, 1869, 3 vols.
  11. Avice Arden: the Old Man's Romance, 1870.
  12. Sun and Shade, 1871, 3 vols.
  13. The Village of Downe: a short Chronicle, 1872.
  14. Beautiful Edith, 1873, 3 vols.
  15. The Story of Fordington Hall, 1873.
  16. Twelve Tales for the Young, 1874.
  17. Married Trust, 1874, 3 vols.
  18. Major Vandermere, 1876, 3 vols.
  19. Wrecked and Saved, 1878.
  20. Under Temptation, 1878, 3 vols.
  21. The Life of St. Colette, the Reformer of the Three Orders of St. Francis, 1879.
  22. Love-knots, 1881, 3 vols.
  23. The Sisters of Ladywell, 1881.
  24. Thomas Rileton, his Family and Friends, 1890.

References

  1. ↑ Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Parsons , Gertrude (1812–1891)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 March 2015


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