Esmè Stuart

Amélie Claire Leroy (1851 – 12 March 1934) was a French writer, who wrote more than 60 works in English often using the pseudonym Esmé Stuart.

Biography

Leroy was born in Paris. She lived for a while in Winchester with the novelist Anna Rachel Bramston (Witham 1848/9–1931) and they adopted a daughter called Juliette Charlotte Leroy, identified as Leroy's niece. Bramston, the daughter of John Bramston, founded Winchester High School, a boarding school for girls, in 1884; the school is now called St Swithun's School.

In 1903, Leroy wrote a letter to the Secretary of The Rhodes Trust asking to admit women to the Rhodes Scholarship. Her request was refused.

Bibliography

The Good Old Days, or, Christmas under Queen Elizabeth. With illustrations by H. S. Marks. (1876)

The Little Brown Girl. (1877)

Master Trim's Charge. (1879)

Mimi: a story of Peasant Life in Normandy. (1879)

The Belfry of St. Jude. (1880)

How They Were Caught in a Trap. A Tale of France in 1802. (1880)

Overtaken by the Tide; or, holidays at Old Port. (1881)

Vanda. A story. (1881)

The White Chapel. (1881)

Adé, a story of German life. (1882)

Isabeau's Hero. A story of the Revolt of the Cevennes. (1882)

Lia A Tale of Nuremberg. (1883)

The Fate of Castle Löwengard: a story of the days of Luther (1884)

An Out-of-the-way-Place. (1884)

The Prisoner's Daughter. A story of 1758. (1884)

A faire damzell. (1885)

Jesse Dearlove (1885)

The Last Hope. (1885)

A Little Place. (1885)

Miss Fenwick's Failures; or, 'Peggy Pepper-Pot,' etc. (1885)

The Unwelcome Guest. Illustrated by M. E. Butler. (1886)