Life
1878-1963 [Jessica Louisa Richard]; b . Dublin; author of The Light Above the Crossroads; Dregs; The Frantic Boast, &c.; The Fire of the Green Boughs (1918). IF
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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), lists The Fire of the Green Boughs (Duckworth 1918), 311pp.; Sylvia Tracy, rebel against convenntions; perverse reasonableness in all her vagaries; Ireland in its present distubred state’; London under air-raid; harbours dying German officer in Kerry estate nr. Tralee given her by her uncle; rescued from troubles by Willie Kent, Nat. MP, and marries him.
Eggeley Books (Cat. 44) lists The House of Courage (Duckworth 1919) (viii), 376pp.; novel of Irish POW torture and torment in eponymous prison.
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