Lisbeth Gooch Séguin

Lisbeth Gooch Séguin Strahan (1841–1890) was a British author.

Life

Lisbeth Gooch Séguin was born in London to William Henry Séguin and Mary Wheatley (née Gooch), both professors of music.[1] She wrote a number of travel books about the trips she undertook as a young woman.[1]

In 1878, she married publisher Alexander Strahan and together they had three children: Stuart Séguin Strahan, Geoffrey Bennoch Strahan, and Mary Strahan.[2]

Lisbeth died on 7 August 1890 in Richmond-upon-Thames.[1]

Works

Fiction

  • Little Nineteenth-Century Child and Other Stories (1 vol. London: William Mullan & Son, 1878.)
  • Mr. Caroli: An Autobiography (3 vol. London: Sampson Low, 1881.)
  • The Algerian Slave: A Novel. (1 vol. London: W. Bartholomew, 1888.)

Non-fiction

  • Walks in Bavaria: An Autumn in the Country of the Passion-Play[3]
  • The Black Forest: Its People and Legends (1879)[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bassett, Troy J. (1999). "Author: Lisbeth Gooch Séguin". Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  2. ↑ Srebrnik, Patricia Thomas (2004). "Strahan, Alexander Stuart (1833–1918), publisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
  3. ↑ Séguin, Lisbeth G. (1884). Walks in Bavaria: An Autumn in the Country of the Passion-Play. Alexander Strahan. Retrieved 12 May 2026.
  4. ↑ Séguin, Lisbeth G. (1879). The Black Forest: Its People and Legends. Strahan, limited. Retrieved 12 May 2026.

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