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Nina Gorst

1869 – 1926

British novelist and playwright

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About Nina Gorst

Lived 1869 – 1926 (aged 56–57). Nina Gorst was a British novelist and playwright.

Nina Cecelia Francesca Gorst (2 November 1869 – 19 October 1926) was a British novelist.

Nina Kennedy was born on 2 November 1869, the daughter of E. R. Kennedy. Her brother was the dramatist Charles Rann Kennedy. She married the journalist and playwright Harold Edward Gorst.

Most of her novels were dramatizations of the lives of poor Londoners focusing on female characters. The Light (1906), which was described as a "Cockney Aurora Leigh," features an orphan girl who gives birth to a blind child. The book follows her spiritual growth as she moves from the workhouse to a series of menial jobs.

Gorst had some spiritualist inclinations. She constantly wore a chain with 19 charms she called talismans. Winifred Graham wrote that Gorst was "the most famous palmist in London".

Nina Gorst died on 19 October 1926 in London. --and Afterwards?. 1 vol. London: Greening and Co., 1901. The Light, 1906 Soul of Milly Green, 1907 Thief on the Cross, 1908 The Leech, 1911 The Night is Far Spent, 1919 (autobiography) The Misbegotten, 1921

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Born
1869
Birth century
Died
1926, London
Also known as
Nina Cecelia Francesca Gorst, Nina C. F. Gorst

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Who was Nina Gorst?

British novelist and playwright

When was Nina Gorst born?

Nina Gorst was born in 1869.

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Nina Gorst died in 1926 in London.

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Nina Gorst was a novelist and playwright.

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Nina Gorst was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Nina Gorst

· Wikidata: Q64685713

· DBpedia: Nina Gorst

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