E. Barrington

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1922
  • Latest Book:
    January 1935
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Elizabeth Louisa "Lily" Moresby was born on late 1862 in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, UK, the second child of Irish Jane Willis (Scott) and English John Moresby, a Royal Navy Captain who explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to discover the site of Port Moresby. She was grand-daughter of Eliza Louisa and Fairfax Moresby. She had a eldest brother Walter Halliday, and four youngest sisters Ethel Fortescue, Georgina, Hilda Fairfax and Gladys Moresby. Due to he father's work and her marriage to a Royal Navy commander Edward Western Hodgkinson, she lived and traveled widely in the East, in Egypt, India, China, Tibet, and Japan. Asian culture would greatly influence her and became a staunch Buddhist. She collabored in the writing of her father's book. Two Admirals: Sir John Moresby and John Moresby (1909). After widowing around 1910, she remarried in 1912 to retired solicitor Ralph Coker Adams Beck. In 1919, the marriage visit Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she settled alone eventually. Surrounded by her Oriental art and Oriental servants, she entertained fortnightly at her home on Mountjoy Avenue in Oak Bay as a strict vegetarian with ascetic inclinations.

She began her writing career publishing short-stories for Newspapers and Magazzines. She was 60 years old by the time she started to publishing her first books. She used various pen names such as L. Adams Beck for books in oriental setting or about esoteric themes, E. Barrington for novelized biographies of British historical figures, and Louis Moresby for novles set in exotic locales. She returned to Asia, and continued to write until her death on 3 January 1931 in Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan.

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Mystery of Stella

    Why might not she and Vanessa have met?...

  • A Bluestocking At Court

    Why Fanny Burney, Madame D'Arblay, retired from Court in 1791....

  • The Darcys of Rosing

    A reintroduction to some of the characters of Miss Austen's novels....

  • The Diurnal of Elizabeth Pepys

    Had she read her husband's diary?...

  • The Golden Vanity

    The story of the First Irish beauties-the Gunnings....

  • The Ladies

    • / Historical Romance
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    "The aim of these stories is not historical exactitude nor unbending accuracy in dates or juxtaposition. They are rather an attempt to recreate the personalities of a succession of charming women, ranging from Elizabeth Pepys, wife of the Diarist...

  • My Lady Mary

  • The Walpole Beauty

    A tale in letters about Maria Walpole, Countess of Waldegrade, Duchess of Gloucester, niece of Horace Walpole....

  • The Chaste Diana

    • / Historical Romance
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    The romance of the first "Polly Peachum": Lavinia Fenton...



  • The Gallants

    Following according to their wont The Ladies! Contens: -The King and the Lady. -Her Majesty's Godson. -The Prince's Pawns. -The Pious Coquette. -The Two and Nelson. -The King and the Lady. -The Wooing of Sir Peter Teazle....

  • Her Majesty's Godson

    Elizabeth makes the best of an unwelcome situation....

  • The Beau and the Lady

    • / Historical Romance
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    The Prince of fashion quarrels with a Prince of the blood....

  • The Divine Lady

    • / Historical Romance
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    This is the story of England's greatest admiral and his beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton. Introduced to high society as a host and maid figure Emily Hart is wild and rebels against her violent master. Soon she is taken on by a new man who ...

  • The King and the Lady

    • / General Fiction
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    The piteous tale of Henry Fitz Empress and Rosamond the Fair....

  • The Pious Coquette

    • / Historical Romance
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  • The Prince's Pawns

    • / Historical Romance
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    Did William de Orange use the Stuarts to his own ends?...

  • The Two and Nelson

    • / Historical Romance
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    Lady Nelson's story as she might have told it....

  • The Wooing of Sir Peter Teazle

    • / Historical Romance
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    Sir Peter and Lady Teazle before Sherridan knew them....

  • Glorious Apollo

    “Mad, bad and dangerous to know…” Caroline Lamb’s fatal description would follow Byron to his grave. He might have been among the greatest of English poets. But the bad luck of the Byron's had plagued him from birth. The son of M...



  • The Exquisite Perdita

    • / Historical Romance
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    Married to cruel and negligent man, the young Perdita Robinson sees her life and her youth pass her by -- until the day the charming Irishman, Mr Sheridan, arrives into her parlour, and offers her an escape: to become an actress on the stage. Befo...

  • The Thunderer

    • / Historical Romance
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    When General Napoleon Bonaparte meets Josephine through Barras, his Commander-in-Chief, he falls in love instantly. Josephine was previously married to Viscount de Beauharnais. On his execution, she was imprisoned, living in terror. But with Thér...

  • The Empress of Hearts

    This is the story of the fall of Marie Antoinette " France’s most alluring Queen - and how it was triggered by a dastardly plot, the affair of the diamond necklace. Of all the jewels in the world’s history, stained with blood and shame, the ...

  • The Laughing Queen: Cleopatra

    • / Historical Romance
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    Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, is bound by the will her father left, in which he requested that she was to marry her younger brother and jointly rule Egypt. Unable to fathom such a union and fearful that her siblings may murder her and rule themse...

  • The Duel of the Queens

    • / Historical Romance
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  • The Irish Beauties

    • / Historical Romance
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    It was the year of grace 1750, and old Mother Corrigan sat outside her door in Slattern Alley smoking her short black pipe with a relish; and it was a good day with her, for she had told the fortune that morning for Squire Tyrconnel on his way to fig...

  • Anne Boleyn

    • / Historical Romance
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    A daredevil beauty stakes all and loses in the great game of kings and kingdoms… Henry the Eighth was wedded to a total of six wives. E. Barrington tells the romantic history of the most beautiful and vivid of them all - his second wife, Anne...

  • The Great Romantic

    • / Historical Romance
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    The tempestuous story of the great Samuel Pepys and his beautiful French Elizabeth Le Marchant de Saint Michel....

  • The Graces

    • / Historical Romance
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  • The Wooing of the Queens

    • / Historical Romance
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    The Wooing of the Queens: Philippa, Adelais, Matilda, Elizabeth, Isabella, and Anne of Cleves....



  • The Crowned Lovers

    • / Historical Romance
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    The true romance of Charles the First and his Queen, Henrietta Maria of France....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E. Barrington has published 30 books.

E. Barrington does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Crowned Lovers, was published in January 1935.

The first book by E. Barrington, The Mystery of Stella, was published in January 1922.

No. E. Barrington does not write books in series.
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