Name and Fame

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Name and Fame is written by Adeline Sergeant and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1523446579 (ISBN 10) and 9781523446575 (ISBN 13).

Adeline Sergeant (4 July 1851 - 4 December 1904) was an English writer.Born Emily Frances Adeline Sergeant at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the second daughter of Richard Sergeant and Jane (Hall),she was home schooled until the age of thirteen, when she attended school in Weston-super-Mare. At fifteen a collection of her poems were published in a volume that received positive notice in Weslayan periodicals. She won a scholarship to attend Queen's College, London. Her father died in 1870, and for several years she became a governess at Riverhead, Kent.In 1882, her novel Jacobi's wife resulted in a small award of £100, and the work was published serially in London. For the next several years her writings were serialized in the Dundee newspaper, where she lived from 1885-7. Adeline then moved to Bloomsbury, London, where she earned enough keep to support herself through her writings. Over her literary career, she produced over ninety novels; with some involving a religious theme. Her religious views evolved over time, including a period in the 1880s when she was briefly agnostic. She frequently traveled abroad, making trips to Egypt and Palestine. In 1901 she moved to Bournemouth, where she died in 1904.