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Eliza Keary
A Victorian writer with a gift for both storytelling and verse, she worked across children's literature, poetry, and memoir. Her books with her sister Annie helped introduce young readers to myth and history in an inviting, accessible way.
1 Audiobook
The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
by Annie Keary, Eliza Keary
About the author
Eliza Harriett Keary was an English writer, poet, and children's author born in 1827. She is best remembered for the books she wrote with her sister Annie Keary, including Heroes of Asgard and the Giants of Jotunheim, which retold Norse myths for younger readers, and Early Egyptian History for the Young.
Alongside those collaborations, she also published work under her own name, including poetry such as Little Seal-Skin and Other Poems. Modern scholarship has noted that her writing ranged beyond children's literature and deserves more attention than it usually receives.
Keary lived well into the early twentieth century, dying in 1918. Reliable biographical sources agree on her importance as part of a family of writers, but a clearly verified portrait was not available from the sources I checked here.