Louisa Henrietta Sheridan Explained

Louisa Henrietta Sheridan (1810 – 2 October 1841) was an English writer and illustrator. Her most well-known work, published by Smith, Elder & Co., is the literary annual, The Comic Offering, for which she served as editor and contributor from 1831 to 1835. She also edited The Diadem, a Book for the Boudoir (London, 1838).^[1]

Louisa Henrietta Sheridan was born in Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, the only daughter of Captain William Brownlow Sheridan and Louisa Mary Addison. She married Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Robartes Wyatt in France on 8 September 1840.^[2] She died in Paris one year later from consumption, aged 31.^{[3] [2]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Allibone . S. Austin . A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century: MAB.-SZY. . 1870 . J. B. Lippincott & Company . Public domain . https://books.google.com/books?id=4iNe2x1N05YC&pg=PA2077 . 9 November 2020 . en . 2.
2. UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969
3. Hunt, Tamara L., "Louisa Henrietta Sheridan's "Comic Offering" and the Critics: Gender and Humor in the Early Victorian Era", Victorian Periodicals Review, 1996