Life
?- 1935 [Mrs J. M. Callwell]; member of the Martins of Ross, Galway; contrib.
Blackwood’s Magazine; author of Timothy Tatters (1892),
in which the young Rose Moore leads a ‘Land League’ with the
other children and the neighbouring boy Patsey to to frighten the English
captain who is about to marry their mother - a plot finally resolved by
his kindness after Patsey has been tried for firing a gun at him; also
A Little Irish Girl (1908); d. Ballycastle. IF2
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Works
One Summer by the Sea (London: Thomas Nelson 1903), 333pp.; Timothy
Tatters: A Story for the Young Nelson (London: Thomas Nelson 1890);
192pp. A Little Irish Girl (1908); Old Irish Life (1912).
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Notes
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919); Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Vol. 2 of same] (1985),
lists Timothy Tatters (London: Nelson 1890 [sic]), 192pp.
Eggeling Catalogue (No. 44) lists One Summer by the Sea (Nelson 1903), 333pp,; Timothy Tatters, A Story for the Young Nelson (1892).
Belfast Central Library holds A Little Irish Girl (1908) and, Old Irish Life (1912).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)