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EMILY HILDA YOUNG (1880 - 1949)

Emily Young was born in Whitley Bay, the daughter of a ship-broker, and attended Gateshead Grammar school. She married J.A.H. Daniell in 1902 and they lived in Bristol (the Radstowe of her novels) until his death in 1917. Thereafter she lived in London with her lover Ralph Henderson, headmaster of Alleyn's School, and his wife. She was addressed as 'Mrs Daniell'. This concealed the unconventional arrangement.

Emily Young's thirteen novels, from A Corn of Wheat (1910) are delicate studies of relationships, complicated by notions of class and propriety. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1930 with Miss Mole. For long considered to be of the school of Jane Austen, a devotee of the 'quiet muse', Young is now seen as subversive, and six of her novels have been reprinted by Virago Press.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
EMILY HILDA YOUNG (1880 - 1949) Emily Young was born in Whitley Bay, the daughter of a ship-broker, and attended Gateshead Grammar school. She married J.A.H. Daniell in 1902 and they lived in Bristol (the Radstowe of her novels) until his death in 1917. Thereafter she lived in London with her lover Ralph Henderson, headmaster of Alleyn's School, and his wife. She was addressed as 'Mrs Daniell'. This concealed the unconventional arrangement. Emily Young's thirteen novels, from A Corn of Wheat (1910) are delicate studies of relationships, complicated by notions of class and propriety. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1930 with Miss Mole. For long considered to be of the school of Jane Austen, a devotee of the 'quiet muse', Young is now seen as subversive, and six of her novels have been reprinted by Virago Press.
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