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G. G. (Genevieve Genevra) Fairfield
b. 1832
An American writer associated with Washington, D.C., she published fiction in the early 1850s under the name G. G. Fairfield. Her surviving works suggest a taste for sentimental storytelling, art, and dramatic personal histories.
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Genevra; or, the history of a portrait by an American lady. A resident of Washington City.
by G. G. (Genevieve Genevra) Fairfield
About the author
Genevieve Genevra Fairfield was an American author born in 1832, and catalog records link her work to New York and to Washington City. She published under the name G. G. Fairfield, a signature that appears on her fiction in mid-19th-century book records.
The works most clearly connected with her are Genevra; or, The History of a Portrait (1851) and Irene; or, The Autobiography of an Artist's Daughter; and Other Tales (1853). Those titles point to a writer interested in emotion, identity, and the artistic world, themes that fit the style of popular literary fiction of her era.
Reliable online catalog sources preserve only a small sketch of her life, so much about Fairfield remains unclear. Even so, her books have stayed visible through library catalogs and digitization projects, allowing modern readers to rediscover a little-known 19th-century American voice.