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Not to be confused with the subject's sister-in-law Elizabeth Ann Sheridan.

Ann Elizabeth "Betsy" Sheridan Le Fanu (1758–1837) was an Anglo-Irish diarist and novelist. She was a daughter of Irish stage actor Thomas Sheridan and the sister of satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and playwright Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu. She married Captain Henry Le Fanu in 1791, and their daughter Alicia Le Fanu was also a writer.

Works

pseudonym:"the Authoress Of Emeline" – journal entries compiled and edited by relative William LeFanu

External sites

  • Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page
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