Edith Alleyne Sinnotte

Australian writer, Esperanto novelist

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte
Portrait of Sinnotte
Born	1871 (1871) Liverpool, UK
Died	15 November 1947(1947-11-15) (aged 75–76) Balwyn, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Esperanto writer
Language	English
Genre	novel
Notable works	Lilio (1918)
Spouse	William Henry Mumford

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte (1871, Liverpool, UK – 15 November 1947, Balwyn, Victoria, Australia) was an Australian writer of British origin.^[1] She is best known as the first female Esperanto novelist.^[2]

Life and work

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte was born in 1871 in Liverpool in a family of Walter Powell Sinnotte and Isabella Baylis. She learned Esperanto in the United Kingdom before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in 1894.^[1] In December 1930 she married William Henry Mumford at the Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne.^[3]

She was a fellow of the British Esperanto Association and the president of the Mont Albert branch of the Esperanto society.^[4] In 1918 her novel Lilio was published in London by British Esperanto Association.^[5] It became the first novel in Esperanto by female author.^[2]

Edith Alleyne Sinnotte died suddenly on 15 November 1947 at her home in Balwyn, Victoria, and was cremated.^[6]^[7]

Books

1918 – Lilio^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Edith Alleyne Sinnotte". esperanto.net. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b Sutton, Geoffrey (2008). Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007. Mondial. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-59569-090-6.
^ "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 24 January 1931. p. 11. Retrieved 9 February 2020 – via Trove.
^ "ESPERANTO NOTES". Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser. 12 July 1918. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b Alleyne Sinnotte, Edith (1918). Lilio: rakonto (in Esperanto). Londono: Brita Esperantista Asocio. OCLC 716914098.
^ "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1947. p. 9. Retrieved 9 February 2020 – via Trove.
^ "Family Notices". The Age. Victoria, Australia. 17 November 1947. p. 10 (FINAL EDITION). Retrieved 9 February 2020 – via Trove.