{{short description|Anglo Irish diarist}} {{Distinguish|text = the subject's sister-in-law [[Elizabeth Ann Sheridan]]}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

'''Ann Elizabeth Sheridan Le Fanu''' (1758– 4 January 1837) was an [[Anglo-Irish people|Anglo-Irish]] diarist and novelist.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA42659962 |title=Betsy Sheridan's journal : letters from Sheridan's sister, 1784-1786 and 1788-1790 |accessdate=9 October 2018 |website=[[CiNii]]|year=1986 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> She was a daughter of Irish [[stage actor]] [[Thomas Sheridan (actor)|Thomas Sheridan]] and the sister of [[satirist]] [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]] and [[playwright]] [[Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu]].<ref name="LOC">{{cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85306865.html |website=[[Library of Congress]] |accessdate=9 October 2018 |title=Sheridan, Betsy, 1758-1837}}</ref> She married Captain Henry Le Fanu in 1791, and their daughter [[Alicia Le Fanu]] was also a writer.<ref name="LOC"/>

==Works== *{{cite book |title=The Triumph of Prudence Over Passion, Or, The History of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald |isbn= 9781846822896 |year=1781 |publisher=[[Four Courts Press]]}} pseudonym:"the Authoress Of Emeline" *{{cite book |title=Betsy Sheridan's Journal: Letters from Sheridan's Sister, 1784–1786 and 1788–1790 |year=1986 |isbn=1258515520|last1=Lefanu |first1=Elizabeth Sheridan |publisher=Literary Licensing, LLC }} – journal entries compiled and edited by relative [[William LeFanu]] *{{cite book |title=The India voyage |year=1804 |publisher=G. and J. Robinson |isbn=3628480477}}

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==External sites== * [https://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/CW3/AuthorPage.cfm?Author=EL3 Corvey Women Writers on the Web author page]

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