Theodora Elizabeth Lynch

Theodora Elizabeth Lynch (born Foulks; 1812–1886) was an English poet and novelist of the 19th century.

Biography

Theodora Elizabeth Lynch was the daughter of Arthur Foulks by his wife, Mary Ann McKenzie, and was born at Dale Park, Madehurst, Sussex, in 1813.[1] Her father was a Jamaica sugar-planter, and he owned over 400 slaves on his plantation,[2] the Lodge estate in the parish of, what is now, Saint Catherine in Jamaica.[3]

Lynch was married on 28 December 1835 to Henry Mark Lynch, second son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica. Her husband, born in Kingston on 29 October 1814, was admitted a student of the Middle Temple 31 May 1837, and was called to the bar 12 June 1840, He practised his profession in Jamaica, and was nominated one of the judges there, but died of yellow fever at Kingston on 15 July 1845, and was buried at Halfway Free Church, Saint Andrew Parish, on 16 July.[1]

After her husband's death Mrs. Lynch returned to England and devoted herself to writing works of fiction. Her books, the scenes of which are often laid in the West Indies, are mostly intended for young people. She died at 81 St. John's Wood Terrace, London, 37 June 1885, aged 75.[1]

Works

Her published works were:[1]

  1. Lays of the Sea, and other Poems. By Personne. i.e. T.E. Lynch, 1846; 2nd edit. 1850.
  2. The Cotton Tree, or Emily, the little West Indian, 1847 ; another edit. 1853.
  3. The Family Sepulchre, a Tale of Jamaica, 1848.
  4. Maude Effingham, a Tale of Jamaica, 1849.
  5. Stories from the Acts of the Apostles, 1850.
  6. The Little Teacher, 2nd edit. 1851.
  7. The Mountain Pastor, 1852.
  8. Millie Howard, or Trust in God, 1864.
  9. The Red Brick House, 1866.
  10. The Wonders of the West Indies, 1866.
  11. The Story of my Girlhood, 1657.
  12. The Exodus of the Children of Israel, and their Wanderings in the Desert, 1857.
  13. The Story of the Patriarchs, 1860.
  14. Son of the Evening Land, and other Poems, 1861.
  15. Rose and her Mission, a Tale of the West Indies, 1863.
  16. The Sabbaths of the Year, hymns for Children, 1864.
  17. Years Ago, a Tale of West Indian Domestic Life of the Eighteenth Century, 1865.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Boase 1893.
  2. ↑ Compensation for slaves, UCL, retrieved 31 January 2015
  3. ↑ Thomas W. Krise, ‘Lynch , Theodora Elizabeth (1812–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 31 Jan 2015
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