Eliot Bliss

Eliot Bliss
BornEileen Norah Lees Bliss
12 June 1903
Jamaica
Died10 December 1990(1990-12-10) (aged 87)
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityEnglish
GenreBildungsroman
Notable worksSaraband, Luminous Isle

Eliot Bliss (12 June 1903 – 10 December 1990)[1][2] was a Jamaican-born English novelist and poet of Anglo-Irish descent, whose literary friendships encompassed Anna Wickham, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, Romer Wilson and Vita Sackville-West.[3]

  1. ^ "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999", database with images, FamilySearch; accessed 3 January 2016): Eileen Norah Lees Bliss, 1903.
  2. ^ Date of death found only in Goodreads, needs confirming. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  3. ^ Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (eds), The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 106.