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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Was he quite square?" "I am beginning to believe that he was something between a cad and a scoundrel." "Did you know that among her forebears on her mother's side was the Abbe Fanu, who left among other things the diagram of the chimney?" "So that was it?" Cathewe's jaws hardened. Fitzgerald understood. Poor old Cathewe! "Most women are fools!" said Cathewe, as if reading his friend's thought.
But Le Fanu, whose understanding was elevated by a deep love of the classics, in which he took university honours, and further heightened by an admirable knowledge of our own great authors, was not to be tempted away by oratory from literature, his first and, as it proved, his last love.
The walls were adorned with old-fashioned lithographs, principally portraits of country gentlemen with high collars and riding gloves: this suggested and it was encouraging that the tradition of portraiture was held in esteem. There was the customary novel of Mr. Le Fanu, for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight.
We meet with John Le Fanu de Sequeville and Charles Le Fanu de Cresseron, as cavalry officers in William the Third's army; Charles being so distinguished a member of the King's staff that he was presented with William's portrait from his master's own hand. He afterwards served as a major of dragoons under Marlborough.
Manchester Guardian. "As original, as powerful, and as artistically written as that little masterpiece of Lytton's, 'The Haunters and the Haunted. He bears favourable comparison with Le Fanu. . . . A volume which has an extraordinary power of fascination." Birmingham Daily Post. "The story is absolutely arresting in its imaginative power." Daily Telegraph. 3s. 6d. net
The Great Man's brothers had been knaves and fools. "And so to-night," the narrator ended, "I bury the casket in the chimney; within it, my hopes and few trinkets of the past of which I am an integral part. Good-by, little glove; good-by, brave old medal! I am sending a drawing of the chimney to the good Abbe le Fanu. He will outlive me.
Just one quotation and only a little one which is not mine, but the warning which Sheridan Le Fanu, author of that capital novel Uncle Silas, gave in the Dublin University Magazine against matrimony: 'Marriage is like the smallpox. A man may have it mildly, but he generally carries the marks of it with him to his grave. And very true too in his division of an Irishman's life into three parts:
In some moods of the sick man's mind, his morbid appetite tends, strange to say, to horrors. He 'snatches a fearful joy' from the weird and supernatural. I have known those terrible tales of Le Fanu, entitled 'In a Glass Darkly, which for dramatic power and eeriness no other novelist has ever approached, devoured greedily by those whose physical sustenance has been dry toast and arrowroot.
To those who knew him he was very dear; they admired him for his learning, his sparkling wit, and pleasant conversation, and loved him for his manly virtues, for his noble and generous qualities, his gentleness, and his loving, affectionate nature. And all who knew the man must feel how deeply deserved are these simple words of sincere regard for Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. William Le Fanu.
Just before this period, Le Fanu had taken to writing humorous Irish stories, afterwards published in the 'Dublin University Magazine, such as the 'Quare Gander, 'Jim Sulivan's Adventure, 'The Ghost and the Bone-setter, etc.
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