Edith Alleyne Sinnotte

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]

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte
Portrait of Sinnotte
Born1871 (1871)
Liverpool, UK
Died15 November 1947(1947-11-15) (aged 75–76)
Balwyn, Victoria, Australia
OccupationEsperanto writer
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
Notable worksLilio (1918)
SpouseWilliam Henry Mumford

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]

References
  1. "Edith Alleyne Sinnotte". esperanto.net. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  2. Sutton, Geoffrey (2008). Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007. Mondial. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-59569-090-6.
  3. "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 24 January 1931. p. 11. Retrieved 9 February 2020 – via Trove.
  4. "ESPERANTO NOTES". Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser. 1918-07-12. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  5. Alleyne Sinnotte, Edith (1918). Lilio: rakonto (in Esperanto). Londono: Brita Esperantista Asocio. OCLC 716914098.
  6. "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1947. p. 9. Retrieved 9 February 2020 – via Trove.
  7. "Family Notices". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1947. p. 10 (FINAL EDITION). Retrieved 9 February 2020 – via Trove.
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