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Isabella Harwood or Ross Neil (14 June 1837 – 29 May 1888) was a British novelist who also wrote dramas in verse.

Isabella Harwood
Born	14 June 1837 Dorset
Died	29 May 1888 St Mary-in-the-Castle
Nationality	British

Biography

Harwood was probably born in Dorset in 1837 where her parents Phillip Harwood and his wife Isabella Neil lived. Phillip Harwood was then a Unitarian minister in Bridport.[1]

Between 1864 and 1870 she wrote four sensational novels which were published without attribution. Between 1871 and 1883 she wrote a number of unfashionable blank verse dramas which were said to be readable.[2] Two were produced in Edinburgh and London but they were not favourably received.[3]

Harwood lived with her father in London and then in Hastings. She died in St Mary-in-the-Castle in 1888 in Hastings a year after her father.[3]

Works

Novels

• Abbot's Cleve
• Carleton Grange
• Raymond's Heroine
• Kathleen
• The Heir Expectant
• Plays
• Lady Jane Grey; Inez, or, The Bride of Portugal

Plays

• The Cid; The King and the Angel; Duke for a Day; or The Tailor of Brussels
• Elfinella, or, Home from Fairyland; Lord and Lady Russell
• Arabella Stuart; The Heir of Linne; Tasso
• Eglantine
• Andrea the Painter; Claudia's Choice; Orestes; Pandora

References

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