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George Paston
1860–1936
A sharp-eyed British novelist and literary critic who wrote under a male pen name, she explored the lives of women and the literary world with wit and independence. Her work ranges from fiction to lively studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture.
2 Audiobooks
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
by George Paston
Old Coloured Books
by George Paston
About the author
Born Emily Morse Symonds in Sprowston near Norwich in 1860, she published as George Paston and built a career as a British author and literary critic. She was also related to the writer and critic John Addington Symonds, and her own work moved comfortably between fiction, criticism, and literary history.
Her novels include A Modern Amazon and A Writer of Books, the latter often noted as her best-known fiction. She also wrote nonfiction on book illustration, caricature, and literary society, including works such as Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century, Old Coloured Books, and Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century.
Paston died on September 12, 1936. She is still remembered for writing with intelligence and curiosity about books, culture, and the place of women in the world of letters.