Ella D'Arcy

Ella D'Arcy

Ella D'Arcy , full name Constance Eleanor Mary Byrne D'Arcy (* around 1857 in London ; † 1937 there) was a short story writer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life

D'Arcy was born into an Irish family in London in about 1857. The exact date is unknown. She was one of nine children, went to school in London, lived in Germany, France and the Channel Islands . Although a student of fine arts, D'Arcy dropped out, allegedly due to poor eyesight, and instead favored becoming a writer.

During her time in London, she worked as an assistant and unofficial editor alongside Henry Harland for the Yellow Book . Her work was characterized by a psychological, realistic style. This is often compared to that of Henry James. Added to this was her determination to deal with topics such as marriage, family, deception and imitation. Many of her stories also show the influence of her time on the Channel Islands, especially “White Magic”.

First and foremost, she was a writer who wrote short stories . Your work is not very extensive. D'Arcy was known for her short stories in the Yellow Book , but she attracted attention after the publication of Irremediable . Among other things, with The Bookman she gained further recognition. In addition to her work for the Yellow Book , D'Arcy has published in Argosy , Blackwoods, and Temple Bar . Through her work for the Yellow Book she got a contract with the publisher John Lane, who published her collection of short stories Monochromes in 1895. It was followed by Modern Instances in 1898 and The Bishop's Dilemma under the umbrella of The Bodley Head that same year . In addition to her work as a writer, D'Arcy also worked as a translator. She translated André Mauroi's biography on Percy Bysshe Shelley , Ariel (1924).

D'Arcy was notorious for her inability to maintain contact with her friends, her love of travel exacerbated this, often appearing unannounced, which earned her the nickname "Goblin Ella" (Eng. "Goblin Ella").

For most of her life, Ella D'Arcy lived alone, in relative poverty. Her work, which showed genuine engagement and engagement with the changing, sophisticated artistic styles of the late nineteenth century, was motivated by hardship. She spent her final years in Paris until she returned to London in 1937 and died there in a hospital.

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Stories Published in the Yellow Book :

• Volume One "Irremediable"
• Volume Two "Poor Cousin Louis"
• Volume Three "White Magic"
• Volume Five "The Pleasure Pilgrim"
• Volume Eight "An Engagement"
• Volume Ten "Two Stories"
• Volume Eleven "A Marriage"
• Volume Twelve "At Twickenham"
• Volume Thirteen "Sir Julian Garve"

Further

• Monochrome (1895)
• Modern Instances (1898)
• The Bishop's Dilemma (1898)
• Ariel (1924) (translation)

literature

• Karl Beckson: Ella D'Arcy, Aubrey Beardsley and the Crisis at The Yellow Book: A New Letter, Notes and Queries. 1979, 26, pp. 331-333
• Benjamin Franklin Fisher: The American Reception of Ella D'Arcy. Victorian Periodicals Review, 28 (Fall 1995): pp. 232-248
• Benjamin Franklin Fisher: Christianity in the Fiction of Ella D'Arcy. Xavier Review, 15 (1995), pp. 29-37
• Benjamin Franklin Fisher: Ella D'Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. English Literature in Transition , 35 (1992), pp. 179-211
• Benjamin Franklin Fisher: Ella D'Arcy Reminisces. English Literature in Transition , 37 (1994), pp. 28-32
• Benjamin Franklin Fisher and Michael P. Dean: Ella D'Arcy, First Lady of the Decadents. University of Mississippi Studies in English, 10 (1992), pp. 238-249
• Sarah E. Maier: Subverting the Ideal: The New Woman and the Battle of the Sexes in the Short Fiction of Ella D'Arcy. Victorian Review, 20 (Summer 1994), pp. 35-48
• Katherine Lyon Mix: A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and its Contributors. (London: Constable, 1960)
• Margaret D. Stetz: Turning Points: Ella D'Arcy. Turn-of-the-Century Women, 3 (1986), pp. 1-14
• Margaret D. Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner, The Yellow Book: A Centenary Exhibition. (Cambridge: The Houghton Library, 1994)
• Anne M. Windholz: The Woman Who Would Be Editor: Ella D'Arcy and the Yellow Book. Victorian Periodicals Review 29 (Summer 1996), pp. 116-130.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Constance Byrne DArcy. (No longer available online.) In: oxforddnb.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2015 ; Retrieved July 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
3. ↑ The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
4. ↑ The yellow book, an illustrated quarterly Volume 3: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
5. ↑ The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
6. ↑ The yellow book, an illustrated quarterly Volume 8: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
7. ↑ The yellow book: an illustrated quarterly Volume 10: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
8. ↑ The yellow book, an illustrated quarterly Volume 11: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
9. ↑ The yellow book, an illustrated quarterly Volume 12: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
10. ^ The yellow book, an illustrated quarterly Volume 13: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. March 10, 2001. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
11. ↑ Monochromes: D'Arcy, Ella: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive . Archive.org. Retrieved September 29, 2013.

Web links

• Biography at the Literary Encyclopedia
• Authors: D´Arcy, Ella. In: gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg, accessed July 29, 2015 . 
• Librivox: LibriVox. In: librivox.org. Retrieved July 29, 2015 . 
• Translation Penguin Book Penguin First Editions Reference point for the early first edition of Penguin Books.