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oseph Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814 and died in the same city in 1873. He trained as a lawyer, but is only known today as an influential writer of Gothic and Sensational fiction. His forebears were of Huguenot extraction and were part of the Anglican Ascendancy, the Protestant elite that ruled Ireland.
Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M.R. James described Le Fanu as ...
Aug 26, 2014 · Tue Aug 26 2014 - 01:00. Although he is probably not as well known as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley, the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, who was born 200 years ago on August...
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan. Contributed by. Maume, Patrick. Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan (1814–73), novelist and journalist, was born 28 August 1814 in Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, eldest son and second child of three children of the Rev. Thomas Philip Le Fanu (1784–1845), Church of Ireland clergyman, and his wife, Emma Lucretia ...
Feb 7, 2023 · When Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, who died 150 years ago today, published his Gothic thriller Uncle Silas in 1864, he was already a successful writer and publisher. He was born in Dublin, where...
J. Sheridan Le Fanu has 1053 books on Goodreads with 493807 ratings. J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s most popular book is Carmilla.
Born: 28 August 1814. Died: 7 February 1873. Known for his Gothic or Victorian Gothic tales, Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 – 1873) was the leading horror or ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century. Le Fanu was raised in Ireland, of Huguenot descent, into a literary family.
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