Eliza Keary

Eliza Keary was an English poet and children’s writer born in 1827 and remembered for a varied body of work that included poetry, fiction, and books for younger readers. Reference sources on nineteenth-century literature list her as Eliza Harriett Keary, and surviving bibliographies place her career across the middle and later Victorian period.

She is especially associated with writing done alongside her sister Annie Keary, who was also an author. Together they produced books such as The Heroes of Asgard, Early Egyptian History for the Young, and Little Wanderlin, and Other Fairy Tales, combining storytelling with myth, history, and a clear sense of moral curiosity.

On her own, she published works including Little Seal-Skin and Other Poems, The Magic Valley, and Memoir of Annie Keary. Modern archives and literary databases continue to preserve her work, and readers still encounter her today through reprints and digital collections devoted to Victorian women writers.