6/29/2023 0 Comments Legacy by Sheridan Anne![]() ![]() ![]() The Phoenix Park and the adjacent village and parish church of Chapelizod would appear in Le Fanu's later stories. ![]() Within a year of his birth, his family moved to the Royal Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Park, where his father, a Church of Ireland clergyman, was appointed to the chaplaincy of the establishment. ![]() īoth his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights (his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful novelist), and his mother was also a writer, producing a biography of Charles Orpen. His parents were Thomas Philip Le Fanu and Emma Lucretia Dobbin. He had an elder sister, Catherine Frances, and a younger brother, William Richard. Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot, Irish and English descent. Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas, the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla, and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. j uː/ 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( / ˈ l ɛ f ən. ![]()
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