Mrs. E. M. Field Explained

Louise Frances Field
Birth Name:	Louise Frances Story
Birth Date:	1856
Birth Place:	Cavan, Ireland
Death Date:	c. 1940
Nationality:	Irish
Other Names:	Mrs E. M. Field, Louisa Frances Field, Louise Frances Story Field
Occupation:	writer

Louise Frances Field (née Story, 1856–1940)^[1] was an Irish novelist and literary critic who wrote an early historical study of children's literature in England.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Life and work

Born Louise Frances Story in 1856 to a Justice of the Peace in Bingfield, Crossdoney, County Cavan, Field wrote under the name Mrs Field or Mrs E. M. Field, and is occasionally listed as Louisa.^{[6] [7]} She wrote stories for and about children and was known for her writings on the Sepoy Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Irish Famine.^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]}

Further reading

• Uncle Jack's Story By Mrs. E. M. Field
• Web site: Fi - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors . November 6, 2016.
• Web site: Catalog Search Results . Https . November 6, 2016.
• Book: Catalog Record: The child and his book. Some account of the... . November 6, 2016. W. Gardner, Darton & co. . 1892 .
• Web site: Catalog Search Results . November 6, 2016.
• Book: Gillian Lathey. Reader in Children's Literature Gillian Lathey. The Role of Translators in Children's Literature: Invisible Storytellers. 13 September 2010. Routledge. 978-1-136-92575-7. 210–.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mrs. E. M. Field - Oxford Reference . Oxford Reference. November 7, 2016.
2. Book: Johanna Bradley. From Chapbooks to Plumb Cake: The History of Children's Literature. 2007. 978-0-549-34070-6. 10–.
3. Book: C. Butler. Teaching Children's Fiction. 20 March 2006. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 978-0-230-37940-4. 11–.
4. Book: Suzanne Le-May Sheffield. Revealing New Worlds: Three Victorian Women Naturalists. 5 September 2013. Routledge. 978-1-134-69846-2. 37–.
5. Jarndyce Booksellers' catalogue Women Writers 1795–1927 Part I: A–F (London, Summer 2017).
6. Web site: Bryda. By Mrs. E. M. Field. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and » 10 Nov 1888. The Spectator Archive . 10 November 1888 . November 7, 2016.
7. Web site: E. M. Field . Ricorso. November 7, 2016.
8. Web site: Book Review: The Mutiny Novels: A Series . Rupkatha.com . November 6, 2016.
9. Book: Angela Bourke. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. 2002. NYU Press. 978-0-8147-9907-9. 924–.
10. Web site: Madras Musings - We care for Madras that is Chennai . Madras musings. November 6, 2016.
11. Web site: Author Information At the Circulating Library . Victorian research . November 6, 2016.
12. Book: Charlie Lovett. Lewis Carroll Among His Books: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Private Library of Charles L. Dodgson. 17 May 2005. McFarland. 978-0-7864-2105-3. 119–.
13. Book: Daniel Hahn. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. 2015. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-969514-0. 205–.
14. Book: Charles Allen. Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900. 5 November 2015. Little, Brown Book Group. 978-0-349-14215-9. 267–.