About Ellen Davitt
Lived 1812 – 1879 (aged 66–67). Ellen Davitt was a teacher and author.
Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) was an English-born Australian writer.
Biography Marie Antoinette Hélène Léontine (Ellen) Heseltine was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire in 1812.
She married Arthur Davitt, an educationalist, in Jersey in 1845. The couple arrived in Australia on 31 July 1854 with the aim of opening a new Model School. However, internal disagreements and a financial recession resulted in the discharge of the Davitts in 1859. The husband contracted tuberculosis and died in 1860. Davitt continued to teach and also began writing after his death. Davitt was a sister-in-law of English writer Anthony Trollope, but appears to have had little contact with him. Uncle Vincent : Or, Love and Hatred (1866)
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English-born Australian writer
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Ellen Davitt was born in 1812 in Kingston upon Hull.
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Ellen Davitt died on 6 January 1879 in Fitzroy.
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Ellen Davitt was a teacher and author.
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