Author:Ada Leverson

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Ada Leverson
(1862–1933)

British writer, also known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde. Also wrote under the name Mrs. Ernest Leverson.

Ada Leverson

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

Short stories and parodies[edit]

  • "An Afternoon Party"
  • "A Minx - A Poem in Prose"
  • "An Overheard Fragment of Dialogue"
  • “The Advisability of Not Being Brought up in a Handbag: A Trivial Tragedy for Wonderful People”
  • “Claude’s Aunt”
  • “Mimosa”
  • “In the Change of Years”
  • "Suggestion" in The Yellow Book, 5 (1895), pp. 249–257
  • "The Quest of Sorrow" in The Yellow Book, 8 (1896), pp. 325–340

Works about Leverson[edit]

  • Violet Wyndham (1963) The Sphinx and her Circle: A biographical sketch of Ada Leverson 1862–1933
  • Charles Burkhart (1973) Ada Leverson
  • Julie Speedie (1993) Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1933, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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