Nancy Campbell

Life
1886-?; [Mrs Joseph Campbell; née Nancy Maude], b. 23 May; dg. Col. Aubrey Maude, Cameronian Highlanders; grandfather Col. Sir George Maude, Crown Equerry to Queen Victoria during thirty-five years, great-grandmother Emily Mimi Ogilvie youngest of 23 children to William Ogilvie and Emily, Duchess of Leinster, and half-sister to Lord Edward Fitzgerald; visited Ireland in 1907 and 1909; heard Joseph Campbell reading at meeting, 20 Nov. 1909; Campbell sought permission to marry her and on being refused by her family wrote explaining his faults, &c.; m. 23 May 1910; after moving into a cottage with him in Co. Wicklow [var. Dublin], she was completely estrangement from her family; sep. 27 August, 1924, with suspicions of infidelity by both; contrib. ‘Four Poems’, Dublin Magazine [1931]; also The Little People (1910) and Agnus Dei (1913).

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Works
‘Four Poems’, Dublin Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2 [1931]; also issued The Little People (London: Arthur T. Humphreys 1910) and Agnus Dei (Dublin: Maunsel & Co. 1913).

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References
Hyland Books (Dec. 1996) lists Agnus Dei (?1910), 16pp.; frontisp. by Joseph Campbell.

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