Life
1801-1891; b. Dublin, 23 Nov.; journalist in Dublin, 1825-40, as WBM; also poems in Irish Monthly Magazine, 1832-34; staff London Morning Chronicle, 1835-50, and connected with Morning Herald; published A Catholic History of England (3 vols. 1847-54), closing with Norman Conquest; ed. Dublin Telegraph for Cardinal Wiseman, 1852-57; historical romances incl. Adelaide: Queen of Italy (1856); and Agnes Arnold (1861); d. 8 Dec., Donnybrook. ODNB PI DIW IF SUTH
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Works
A Catholic History of England (3 vols. 1847-54); Adelaide: Queen of Italy (1856); Agnes Arnold, 3 vols. (London: Newby 1861); A Christmas Story Book (Dublin: Duffy 1860); A Grandfather’s Story Book (Dublin: Duffy 1852).
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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), atttests to many Catholic works; Agnes Arnold (London: 1861) [on the courses by which people were driven into rebellion in 1798].
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), adds A Christmas Story Book (Duffy 1860); A Grandfather’s Story Book (Duffy 1852).
John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longmans 1988; rep. 1989), gives bio-data: b. Dublin, Catholic; journalist after 1823; moved to London in 1830s, wrote for Morning Chronicle; interested in Anglo-Saxon poetry and antiquarianism, he travelled widely; lived in Brittany; historical romances in Bertha (1851), a romance of the dark ages; Adelaide, Queen of Italy (1856); Agnes Arnold (1861) is an Irish novel set in 1798; d. in Dublin at 90. BL 2.
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