Elizabeth Hasell

Elizabeth Julia Hasell (14/17 January 1830 – 17 January 1887) was a British miscellaneous writer and literary reviewer.

Early life and education

Elizabeth Julia Hasell was born at Dalemain country house, near Penrith, Cumbria, England, on 14 January 1830. She was the second daughter of Dorothea and Edward Williams Hasell who lived at Dalemain, and were the lord and lady of the Dacre and Soulby manors.

Career About 1858, she began to contribute to Blackwood's Magazine and also to the Quarterly Review with reviews of notable publications such as Lord Derby's translation of The Iliad, Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1859), Enoch Arden in 1864, and Becket in 1885, and William Morris's Poems (1869).

Selected works The Rock: and other short lectures on o of Holy Scripture, 1867 Short Family Prayers, 1879, 1884 Bible Partings, 1883 A devotional work, Via Crucis et Lucis, was the last book she wrote.