Life
?1813-1877 [var. 1814]; b. Harbourstown, Co. Meath; dg. Richard O’Farrel
Caddell; lifelong invalid; contrib. Irish Monthly, Map,
Month, and Catholic World; novels incl. Blind Agnes
(1855); Nellie Netterville (1867), both translated into French
and Italian; d. 11 Sept., Kingstown [Dun Laoghaire]. IF DIW OCIL
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Works
Flower & Fruit, or the Use of Tears (Dublin: Duffy 1856); Marie,
or The Workwoman of Liege (NY: Kenedy 1856); Never Forgotten
[c.1871]; Blind Agnes[e], or the Little Spouse of the
Blessed Sacrament (Dublin: Duffy [1887]), another ed., (NY: Kenedy
[1888]); Wild Times (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne 1925);
Nellie Netterville (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne [1867];
NY: Catholic Publications 1878); Lost Genevieve (London: Burns,
Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); The Miner’s Daughter (London:
Burns, Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); A Pearl in Dark Waters (London:
Burns, Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); Father de Lisle, A Story of
Tyborne (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); Blanche
Leslie (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); Minister’s
Daughter (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne n.d.); Little Snowdrop
(London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); Tales for the Young
(London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne [n.d.]); also poems in Orbey Shipley,
ed., Lyra Messianica (1864).
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Notes
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), calls
her a daughter of ‘old’ Catholic family which retained estates,
related to Viscount Southwell (mat. gf.); writings illustrate history
and Catholic piety; d. at 77; contrib. to Catholic periodicals; Nellie
Netterville, or One of the Transplanted [1867], ‘a tale in the
time of Cromwell’ and Blind Agnes (Dublin: Duffy: 2nd ed.
1856; 5th ed. 1873) [discovered begging outside Naples church and brought
back to Ireland by Lady Oranmore, who discovers her to be his gdg.; her
priest-hunting uncle Squire Netterville (‘the pervert’ acc.
Brown) has gained the estate by turning Protestant; saved from fury of
the Catholics by his brother, Fr. Netterville, and returns to orig. faith,
returning property; Fr. Netterville murdered by Cromwellians; Agnes dies
on Feast of Sacred Heart]; IF adds the following titles, Wild Times;
Marie, or the Workwoman of Liege; Lost Genevieve; The Miner’s Daughter;
Flowers and Fruit, the publisher being Duffy.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)