page_title: Elizabeth Whately
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Whately / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Book illustration from Quicksands on Foreign Shores (1854) by Elizabeth Whately.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Pope Whately was an English writer and the wife of Archbishop Richard Whately. She wrote and edited a number of fictional, religious and educational works, though little of her writing appeared explicitly under her own name.
context_section_description: Children's tracts. Titles mentioned on the title page of Reverses (1833) are Conversations on the Life of Christ and First Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles. Fitzpatrick states that the titles by Elizabeth Whately that appeared in 1830 were edited by Richard Whately.
  Village Conversations in Hard Times (1831, two parts) by "a Country Pastor". In the past attributed to Richard Whately.
  Reverses: or Memoirs of the Fairfax Family (1833), novel. The conclusion of the story has the Fairfax family emigrating to Canada. Richard Whately wrote about such emigrants in one of his early contributions to the Quarterly Review. Mary Charlotte Mair Simpson, daughter of Nassau William Senior, attributes the tale "Norval" in this work to Richard Whately.
  The Second Part of the History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1835, R. Fellowes), a continuation of Rasselas, intended as children's literature. It was first published in 1834 in a collection edited by Lady Mary Fox. This work was neglected until a 1950 article by Robert Metzdorf. According to Richard, Whately "draws characters confident that Christian order will eventually spread over the globe." The same collection contained Atmos the Giant by Blanco White, inspired by his 1832 journey on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and passed to Elizabeth Whately.
  A Guide to Irish Fiction comments on the gap to 1854 in Elizabeth Whately's production of fiction after this work. She edited Thoughts of a Parent on Education, by the Late Mrs Richard Trench (1837) by the late Melesina Trench. Egerton Ryerson gained the impression from Richard Whately, around 1845, that the Irish Education Board's standard texts for religious instruction were written by him and his wife; but that was incorrect. The 1845 edition of Tales of the Genii by James Ridley, appearing under Richard Whately's name, is attributed to Elizabeth. The Light and the Life (1850) is also attributed to Elizabeth.
  English Life, social and domestic, in the middle of the nineteenth century, considered in reference to our position as a community of professing Christians (1847, B. Fellowes)
  Lectures on Scripture Parables (1854), "with the Correction and Supervision of Dr. Whately"
  Quicksands on Foreign Shores (1854), as "Great Truths Popularly Illustrated" No.1, edited by "the author of English Life social and domestic", published by Blacader & Co., London.
  The Roving Bee: or, A Peep into Many Hives (1855), given as edited by, and attributed to, Whately. A plot summary from a review in The Governess from 1855: "The heroine is, by "unforeseen circumstances," induced to become a governess, in order that her brother may receive a college education."
caption: "Agatha and Soeur Camille in the Convent Garden", from Quicksands on Foreign Shores (1854) by Elizabeth Whately
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