Life
1794- ; zealous Protestant sectarian, several anonymous tendentious novels including, The Confessor, A Jesuit Tale of the Times (1854); died in debtor’s prison after eighteen months. ODNB, 1794-1854; anonymous novelist, died in Queen’s Bench Prison. ODNB DIW IF
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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists Michael Cassidy (1840), an attempt to persuade people to use small allotments, green crops, rotation, economy, and hard work,; Owen Glendower, rom. (1849). Also, The Confessor (n.d.), “a Jesuit tale founded on fact”.
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