Mrs Cecily Wilhelmine Sidgwick (
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Maiden name
Ullman
Also known as
Mrs Andrew Dean
Short biography
A novelist and journalist, Sidgwick produced over fourty novels.
Full biography
Born 1855 in London to a German Jewish family. She married the philosopher Alfred Sidgwick (the cousin of the better-known philosopher Henry Sidgwick) in 1883.
They lived in Manchester, where he was Professor of Logic, from 1886 at, London, and, from 1906, Cornwall. The couple first stayed in Lelant with the Havelock Ellises and then built Trewoofe Orchard, Lamorna to be their permanent residence. Her first novel featuring a Cornish setting was The Kinsman (1907).
Works in our collections
Author
The Grasshoppers (1895)
A Woman with a Future (1896)
The Inner Shrine (1901)
Scenes of Jewish Life (1904)
The Kinsman (1907)
Home Life in Germany (1908)
Cynthia's Way (1909)
The Severins (1909)
Anthea's Guest (1911)
Odd Come Shorts (1911)
Lamorna (1912)
Below Stairs (1913)
Mr Sheringham & Others (1913)
The Professor's Legacy (1914)
In Other Days (1915)
The Lantern Bearers (1915)
Mr Broom and His Brother (1916)
Karen (1918)
The Devil's Cradle (1918)
The Purple Jar (1919)
The Black Knight (1920)
Law and Outlaw (1921)
None-Go-By (1924)
Humming Bird (1927)
London Mixture (1927)
The Bride's Prelude (1928)
Masquerade (1930)
Storms and Tea-cups (1933)
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Date of birth (approx)
c. 1855
Place of birth
Islington, London
Date of death
01 January 1934
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