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Ada Leverson

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Ada Leverson


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
October 10, 1862

Died
August 30, 1933

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Humor


Ada Leverson (1862-1933), the devoted friend of Oscar Wilde (who called her the wittiest woman in the world), wrote six timeless novels, each a classic comedy of manners. Love’s Shadow, the first in the trilogy The Little Ottleys, is the perfect examples of her wit and style: no other English novelist has explored the world of marriage and married life with such feeling for its mysteries and absurdities.

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Average rating: 3.52 · 790 ratings · 163 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
Love's Shadow
3.33 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1908 — 94 editions
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The Yellow Book
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3.49 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1897 — 2 editions
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The Little Ottleys
3.76 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1962 — 15 editions
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Love at Second Sight
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3.68 avg rating — 68 ratings — 54 editions
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Tenterhooks
3.61 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1912 — 61 editions
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Bird of Paradise
3.45 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1914
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The Twelfth Hour
3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1907 — 56 editions
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The Limit
3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1911 — 37 editions
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Series by Ada Leverson

Love's Shadow Tenterhooks Love at Second Sight
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“...looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.”
― Ada Leverson
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