Life
1892-?; b. Mallow; left Ireland at her marriage; prolific romance novelist. Redferne, M.H.F., An Irish Stew (London: Mills & Boon 1929), aet al. IF2
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Works
Elizabeth Who Wouldn ‘t (London: Mills & Boon 1919); Referne, aM.F.H.: An Irish Stew (London: Mills & Boon 929); Three Meet a(London: Mills & Boon 1930); Aunts in Arcady: An Irish Idyll a(London: Mills & Boon 1930); Taken at the Flood (London: Mills a& Boon 1931); Strange Lover (London: Mills & Boon 1933); Moon and Magpies (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1931), Rescuing aAnne (London: Collins 1933); Independence (London: Collins a1935); Travelling Light (London: Collins 1935); Much Dithering (London: Collins 1938); Invitation (London: Collins 1934). a
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal aCarbery 1985), lists Elizabeth Who Wouldn ‘t (London: Mills a& Boon 1919); Referne, M.F.H., An Irish Stew (London: Mills a& Boon 929); Three Meet (London: Mills & Boon 1930); Aunts ain Arcady, an Irish Idyll (London: Mills & Boon 1930); Taken at the Flood (London: Mills & Boon 1931); Strange Lover (London: Mills & Boon 1933); Moon and Magpies (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1931), Rescuing Anne (London: Collins 1933); Independence (London: Collins 1935); Travelling Light (London: Collins 1935); Much Dithering (London: Collins 1938); and Invitation (London: aCollins 1934). Clarke notes that the substance of her novels consists of visits to Ireland on pretexts of hunting, relations-visiting, wooing; apictures of decaying big houses and Anglo-Irish families in the same condition; chars. include Elizabeth O’Hara (Ardprior house); Derrick O’Connor; Mrs Coyningham-Smith and her sister Madame O’Callaghan; Condons and Sir William Clangibbon.
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