Beatrice Egerton

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Beatrice Egerton

A little-known late-Victorian novelist whose surviving reputation rests largely on Lippa, a historical novel first published in 1891. The record around her is sparse, which makes her work feel like a small rediscovery from the edges of nineteenth-century fiction.

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Lippa

Lippa

by Beatrice Egerton

About the author

Beatrice Egerton is listed in major library catalogs as the author of Lippa, a novel published in London in 1891. Modern public-domain listings and library records suggest that this is the work by which she is chiefly known today.

Reliable biographical detail about her literary life is limited. A likely identification appears in historical authority records for Lady Beatrice Mary Egerton, later Beatrice Kemp, Baroness Rochdale (1871–1966), but the surviving sources available here do not provide a fuller confirmed account of her writing career.

That scarcity of background is part of what makes her interesting to present-day readers: her fiction survives even where much of the author’s story has faded from view.