Sheridan Le Fanu

Born August 28, 1814· Dublin, Ireland

† Died February 7, 1873

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Emerging from a Huguenot-descended Irish Protestant family, he educated himself using his father’s extensive library and began composing poetry at fifteen, later turning to short fiction to support his household. By the late 1830s he contributed stories to the Dublin University Magazine, publishing his first ghost tale, “The Ghost and the Bone-Setter,” and soon acquired several local newspapers, c… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources