Author: Montagu, Eleanora Louisa
Biography:
MONTAGU, Eleanor Louisa, later HERVEY (1811-1903: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 16 Nov. 1811 and baptised on 10 July 1817 at St. Peter’s, Liverpool, the third of four children of George Conway Courtenay Montagu (1776-1847) and his wife Margaret Green Wilson (1780-1834), who had married at Gretna Green in 1803. Nothing is known about her education but she became a major contributor to the Literary Souvenir 1835-37. In 1841 she was living in Kensington and married Thomas Kibble Hervey (q.v.) on 17 Oct. 1843 at St. James’s, Piccadilly. He had achieved early fame for his undergraduate poem Australia (1824). After his death in 1859, she edited his Poems (1866). She moved to the south coast and was recorded at Brighton (1861) and Ramsgate (1871) before finally settling at Worthing, where she died on 27 Oct. 1903, and was buried at Highgate. She left an estate of £894. In addition to her historical loco-descriptive poems listed here, she wrote a verse play, The Landgrave (1839); a novel, Snooded Jessaline (1865); and several volumes of tales and stories for children. (ancestry.co.uk 2 Sept. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 2 Sept. 2022; “Hervey, Thomas Kibble,” ODNB 2 Sept. 2022; Boyle, 199-200, 124-6; Morning Post 18 Oct. 1843; Croydon Observer 20 Nov. 1903) AA
Other Names:
- Eleanor M.