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''''(Jane) Emily Gerard''' (7 May 1849 &ndash; 11 January 1905) was a nineteenth-century author best known for the influence her collections of [[Transylvania]]n folklore had on [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[Dracula]]''. ==Life== Emily Gerard was born in Scotland, the daughter of Archibald Gerard and Euphemia Erskine Robison (daughter of [[Sir John Robison]]). She is sometimes referred to as '''Emily Gerard, Mrs de Laszowska''', '''Emily Laszowska''', '''Emily Gerard''', or '''Emily de Laszowska Gerard''', after her husband, Chevalier Mieczislas de Laszowski, a Polish cavalry officer serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Her familiarity with Transylvanian folklore came about as a result of his stationing in the town of Hermannstadt (''Nagyszeben'' in Hungarian; now known by its Romanian name of [[Sibiu]]) which is now located in the [[Romania]]n province of Transylvania, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1918. She reviewed German literature for the [[The Times|Times]], having been educated in [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]]. She spent much of her life in Austria, where she met and befriended [[Mark Twain]],<ref>Eccles 1899</ref> to whom ''The Extermination of Love'' (1901) is dedicated. Her sister Dorothea (Gerard) Longard de Longgarde (1855–1915), who was arguably the more successful and certainly the more prolific novelist, also married an Austro-Hungarian officer and spent much of her life in Austria. Their novels were often set in Eastern Europe. The Gerard family also included at least two brothers, the [[Jesuit]] [[provincial superior|provincial]] Father John Gerard (1840–1912) and General Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard (1843–1905), who made minor contributions to the siblings' collective literary output that eventually totaled nearly 60 books and novels. Both brothers were considered sufficiently noteworthy to be listed alongside Emily Gerard in Black's ''Who Was Who, 1897-1916'' (1953). ==Works== * ''Reata; or What's in a Name'', Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=LpMuAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Reata; or What's in a Name'' Vol.1 (1880) William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London] (Google eBook)^*</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dZMuAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Reata; or What's in a Name'' Vol.2 (1880) William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London] (Google eBook)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=s5MuAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Reata; or What's in a Name'' Vol.3 (1880) William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London] (Google eBook)</ref> * ''Beggar My Neighbor'', Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=x9AsAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Beggar My Neighbor'' Vol.1 (1882) Blackwood] (Google eBook)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BNEsAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Beggar My Neighbor'' Vol.2 (1882) Blackwood] (Google eBook)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=MdEsAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Beggar My Neighbor'' Vol.3 (1882) Blackwood] (Google eBook)</ref> * ''The Waters of Hercules'', Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=w8JAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Emily+Gerard%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Waters of Hercules'' (1885) Blackwood] (Google eBook)</ref> (these first three novels are all under the name "E.D. Gerard" - a collaborative pen name of Emily and her sister Dorothea Gerard) * "Transylvanian Superstitions." ''[[Nineteenth Century (periodical)|The Nineteenth Century]]'' Vol.18, (1885) p.&nbsp;128-144<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=hUJDAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Nineteenth Century'' Vol. 18 (1885) Kegan, Paul, Trench & Company, London] (Google eBook)</ref> * ''The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania'', New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. * ''Bis'', 1890. * ''A Secret Mission'', 1891. * ''A Sensitive Plant'', 1891. (as "E.D. Gerard" in collaboration with Dorothea Gerard.) * ''The Voice of a Flower'', 1893. * ''A Foreigner'', 1896. * ''An Electric Shock'', 1897. * ''Tragedy of a Nose'', 1898. * ''The Extermination of Love: A Fragmentary Study in Erotics'', Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BKgzAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Extermination of Love: A Fragmentary Study in Erotics'' (1901) Berhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig] (Google eBook)</ref> * ''The Heron's Tower'', 1904.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=1WgOAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Heron's Tower'' (1904) Methuen & Co., London] (Google eBook)</ref> * ''Honour's Glassy Bubble, A Story of Three Generations'', 1906. (Posthumously published.) Aside from the collaborations, she was most commonly identified as "E. Gerard" on the title pages of these works. ==References== {{reflist}} <font size="6"><nowiki>*</nowiki></font></h2> May require [[Google Chrome]] to read on-line or download. == Sources == * Heiss, Lokke. “Madame Dracula: The Life of Emily Gerard.” ''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'', 10 (1999): 174-186. * Black, Adam and Charles Black. ''Who Was Who, 1897-1916'', 4th ed., v. 1, London: Adam and Charles Black, [1920] 1953: p.&nbsp;270-271. * {{cite web |url=http://archives.nd.edu/calendar/c189902.htm |title=University of Notre Dame Archives Calendar | author= [[Charlotte O'Conor Eccles|Eccles, Charlotte O'Conor]] |accessdate=2007-03-23 | pages=X-4-c | date=1899-02-21 }} * Michie, Christopher Young,''The Practice of Forestry,'' Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888: p.&nbsp;10 of Blackwood Catalog section. *[http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ge.htm New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors] * Teuceanu, Radu, “Un Occidental Despre Transilvania: Jane Emily Gerard, The Land beyond the Forest, 1888." Brukenthal. Acta Musei, I. 1 (2006): 243-251. ==External links== *{{worldcat id|lccn-n90-639297}} *{{OL author|OL5963285A}} {{Authority control|VIAF=15684026}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Gerard, Emily | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = British writer | DATE OF BIRTH = 7 May 1849 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = 11 January 1905 | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerard, Emily}} [[Category:Scottish women novelists]] [[Category:1849 births]] [[Category:1905 deaths]] [[Category:Collectors of fairy tales]] [[Category:Women science fiction and fantasy writers]]'