# Betsy Sheridan

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Anglo Irish diarist

Not to be confused with the subject's sister-in-law [Elizabeth Ann Sheridan](/source/Elizabeth_Ann_Sheridan).

**Ann Elizabeth Sheridan Le Fanu** (1758– 4 January 1837) was an [Anglo-Irish](/source/Anglo-Irish_people) diarist and novelist.[1] She was a daughter of Irish [stage actor](/source/Stage_actor) [Thomas Sheridan](/source/Thomas_Sheridan_(actor)) and the sister of [satirist](/source/Satirist) [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](/source/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan) and [playwright](/source/Playwright) [Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu](/source/Alicia_Sheridan_Le_Fanu).[2] She married Captain Henry Le Fanu in 1791, and their daughter [Alicia Le Fanu](/source/Alicia_Le_Fanu) was also a writer.[2]

## Works

- *The Triumph of Prudence Over Passion, Or, The History of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald*. [Four Courts Press](/source/Four_Courts_Press). 1781. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781846822896](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846822896). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date)) pseudonym:"the Authoress Of Emeline"

- Lefanu, Elizabeth Sheridan (1986). *Betsy Sheridan's Journal: Letters from Sheridan's Sister, 1784–1786 and 1788–1790*. Literary Licensing, LLC. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1258515520](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1258515520). – journal entries compiled and edited by relative [William LeFanu](/source/William_LeFanu)

- *The India voyage*. G. and J. Robinson. 1804. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3628480477](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3628480477). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*Betsy Sheridan's journal : letters from Sheridan's sister, 1784-1786 and 1788-1790*](https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA42659962). Oxford University Press. 1986. Retrieved 9 October 2018. {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: |website= ignored ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored))

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-LOC_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-LOC_2-1) ["Sheridan, Betsy, 1758-1837"](http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85306865.html). *[Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress)*. Retrieved 9 October 2018.

## External sites

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

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