The Author of 'The Spanish Brothers'

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Deborah Alcock, Her Life and Works Written by Elizabeth Boyd Bayly “ONLY remembered by what I have done.” That will never be true of Deborah Alcock. Partly because the unknown cannot be remembered, and year after year her books came out — the first by “D. A.,” the next “By...

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Deborah Alcock, Her Life and Works

Written by Elizabeth Boyd Bayly

“ONLY remembered by what I have done.”

That will never be true of Deborah Alcock. Partly because the unknown cannot be remembered, and year after year her books came out — the first by “D. A.,” the next “By the Author of” the one or more before it, until the wide success of her book 'The Spanish Brothers' stamped its name, without her own, on all she wrote; and for twenty years longer she went on writing stories which left their impress on innumerable lives, while the writer’s identity remained strangely unknown outside the quiet little city in the South of Ireland where her best years were spent.

In 1890 The Story of Constance was released in a serial, and afterwards published under the title of 'Crushed yet Conquering', “by Deborah Alcock.” In 1891, at the age of fifty-six — a lone woman, deeply bereaved — Miss Alcock came to England, and to her astonishment “found herself famous.” And still her new friends, like the old ones, said, “She is greater than her books — though we loved them so well.” More than by her writings or her gracious acts — by what she was will she be remembered, in life and in eternity, by those whose privilege it was to know her.

Her work:

The Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (1857)
The Seven Churches of Asia, or, The Seven Golden Candlesticks (1860)
Sunset in Provence (1864)
The Dark Year of Dundee: Tale of the Scottish Reformation
The Spanish Brothers: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1871)
Tales of Martyr Times (1872) [reprint of Sunset in Provence]
In the Shadow of God (1877)
Lessons on Early Church History (1879)
In the Shadow of God. [Part I:] In the Desert: A Story of the Church Under the Cross (1880)
The Czar: A Tale of the Time of The First Napoleon (1882)
The Roman Students; or, On the Wings of the Morning (1883)
Archie's Chances (1886)
The Child's Victory (1889)
Geneviève; or, the Children of Port Royal. A story of Old France (1889)
Crushed yet Conquering: A Story of Constance and Bohemia (1891)
Prisoners of Hope (1894)
By Far Euphrates; A Tale (1897)
No Cross, No Crown: A Tale of the Scottish Reformation (1900)
Under the Southern Cross: A Tale of the New World (1900)
Done and Dared in Old France (1907)
Under Calvin's Spell; or, A Tale of the heroic Times in Old Geneva (1902), republished in France as Gabrielle; histoire d'une fiancée au temps de Calvin (1908)
The Romance of Protestantism (1908)

Paperback, 407 pages

The Author of 'The Spanish Brothers'

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