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Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) was a British writer and suffragette.Born in Hampstead, 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 BA 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. It was a best-seller, but she failed to achieve similar success with subsequent books which included novels, short stories and books for children. Harraden spent several summer holidays lodging at The Green Dragon inn at Little Stretton, Shropshire,...
Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) was a British writer and suffragette. Born in Hampstead, 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 BA 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. It was a best-seller, but she failed to achieve similar success with subsequent books which included novels, short stories and books for children. Harraden spent several summer holidays lodging at The Green Dragon inn at Little Stretton, Shropshir...
Popular novel first published in 1894, by the author of Out of the Wreck I Rise.
Reproduction of the original: Katharine Frensham by Beatrice Harraden
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This is an original autograph signed manuscript of Beatrice Harraden's published illustrated story for children by the same title. The story takes place in an old second-hand book-shop in London with the owner and his 10 year-old granddaughter Rose.
1894. Arguably one of the best-known Suffragette writers, Beatrice Harraden was a popular novelist who was heavily involved in the Suffragette tax resistance campaign. Her best-selling sentimental romance, Ships that Pass in the Night tells of a doomed love-affair between two patients in a tuberculosis sanitarium. This story caught the public's imagination, and the title became a byword for a fleeting or doomed love affair. The title was inspired by lines in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, Third Evening, Theologian's Second Tale (Elizabeth), Fourth Part. ................Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) was a British writer and suffragette. LifeBorn in Hampstead, London on 24 January 1864, ...