Life
1880-?; dg. of above; b. Glenalla, Co. Donegal; journalist and contributor
to Manchester Guardian; novels include The Flame and the Flood
(1903), a love-story, partly set in Ireland; The Third Experiment
1904), in which a girl raised on charity marries a Protestant merchant ;
Ambush of Young Days (1906), set in a temperance hotel with an unnecessarily
truthful heroine; The Stars Beyond (1907), problem novel comparing
Catholic and Protestant ethos in Ireland; Imperial Richenda (1908),
concerning a girl working in a Dublin spa; The Green Banks of Shannon
(1929), sketch set in Limerick. IF DUB DIL2.
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Works
The Flame and the Flood [1st Novel Library] (London: T. Fisher, Unwin
1903) [var. 1902], xii, 339pp.; The Third Experiment (London:
T. Fisher Unwin 1904), 300pp.; Ambush of Young Days (London: Duckworth
1906), vii, 344pp.; Imperial Richenda: A Fantastic Comedy (London:
Alston Rivers 1908), 313pp.; The Stars Beyond (London: Eveleigh
Nash 1907), vii, 375pp.; The Single Eye (London: Hutchinson [1924]),
288pp.; Land Forever Young (London: SPCK 1902), 1, 198pp.; The
Golden Egg (London: J. Long 1927); The Green Banks of Shannon
(London: Collins [1929]), 242pp.; Charlotte Bronte: A Psychological
Study (London: Heinemann 1929).
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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), quotes
her self-portrait, ‘she believes in Ireland as the Land of Spiritual
Happiness; as the Land which has kept itself innocent, religious, and
vividly individualistic, in the face of the wave of undistinguishable
sameness which is engulfing all national idosyncrasy, and tends toward
becoming the Esperanto of the soul. Ireland she believes in as the Child-Soul
of the nations, not to be deceived or bought, but perceiving and desiring
with incorruptible ingenuousness those things which alone make individual,
as well as national, life worth while, Faith and Freedom before Subordination
and Sophistication, and the Traffic of the Heart to the Traffic of the
Mart’; brogue, sentiment, romance; often set in Limerick; nationalist
in sentiment though not by contact or association [IF]; lists The Flame
and the Flood (London: Fisher Unwin 1903), xii, 339pp. [love-story,
partly in Ireland]; The Third Experiment (Fisher Unwin 1904), 300pp. [Irish town; charity raised girl marries Protestant merchant] ;
Ambush of Young Days (Duckworth 1906), vii, 344pp. [set in
temperance hotel; deals with unnecessarily truthful heroine]; The Stars
Beyond (Nash 1907), vii, 375pp. [problem novel; types of Irish Protestant
clergy; heroine rejects both Protestantism and Catholicism; novelist wavers] ;
Imperial Richenda (Alston Rivers 1908), 313pp. [equivocal account
of young lady who works as waitress in spa hotel nr. Dublin; some satire].
IF2 cites The Single Eye (London: Hutchinson 1924), 288pp. [Protestant
clerical life in Ireland, in which young curate in St. Mungret, Limerick,
defends two fallen women and eventually leaves the order, tending finally
towards a Capuchin convent; an Archbishop Gore satirised]; and The
Green Banks of the Shannon (London: Collins [n.d.]), 242pp. [twenty-nine
sketches from Manchester Guardian and Saturday Westminster Gazette,
relating to Limerick and neighbourhood.
British Library holds The Flame and the Flood [1st Novel Library] (London: T. Fisher, Unwin 1903); The Third Experiment (London: T. Fisher, Unwin 1904); Ambush of Young Days (London: Duckworth 1906); The Stars Beyond (London: Eveleigh Nash 1907); The Single Eye (London: Hutchinson [1924]); The Green Banks of the Shannon (London: Collins [1929]); Land Forever Young (London: SPCK 1902), 1, 198pp.; The Golden Egg (London: J. Long 1927); Imperial Richenda, A Fantastic Comedy (London: Alston Rivers 1908); also Charlotte Bronte, A Psychological Study (London: Heinemann 1929)
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