Английская Википедия:Edith Alleyne Sinnotte

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Edith Alleyne Sinnotte (1871, Liverpool, UK – 15 November 1947, Balwyn, Victoria, Australia) was an Australian writer of British origin.[1] She is best known as the first female Esperanto novelist.[2]

Life and work

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte was born in 1871 in Liverpool in a family of Walter Powell Sinnotte and Isabella Baylis. She learned Esperanto in the United Kingdom before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in 1894.[1] In December 1930 she married William Henry Mumford at the Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne.[3]

She was a fellow of the British Esperanto Association and the president of the Mont Albert branch of the Esperanto society.[4] In 1918 her novel Lilio was published in London by British Esperanto Association.[5] It became the first novel in Esperanto by female author.[2]

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte died suddenly on 15 November 1947 at her home in Balwyn, Victoria, and was cremated.[6][7]

Books

  • 1918 – Lilio[5]

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