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Beatrice Kemp
1871–1966
A novelist who published as Beatrice Egerton, she is best remembered for the Victorian-era novel Lippa. She also appears in historical records as Lady Beatrice Rochdale, linking her literary work with public life and the women’s suffrage movement.
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Lippa : a novel
by Beatrice Kemp
About the author
Born Lady Beatrice Mary Egerton on November 5, 1871, she was the daughter of Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere. After her 1896 marriage to George Kemp, later 1st Baron Rochdale, she became known as Beatrice Kemp, Baroness Rochdale.
As a writer, she published under the name Beatrice Egerton. The work most clearly confirmed in the sources is Lippa, a novel first published in 1891 and now preserved by Project Gutenberg and other library records.
Historical and manuscript records also describe her as a children's author and a suffragist. She died in 1966, leaving behind a life that touched both literature and public causes, even if many details of her writing career are now hard to recover.