Life
1888-1960 [occas. pseud. ‘F. Winthorp’]; novelist, b. Waterford,
dg. of Quakers; ed. Newtown; Sec. Gaelic League branch, Anti-Vivisectionist,
member of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [see
Louie Bennett]; lived in Dublin from 1920; suffragette and member of Sinn
Féin; The Rebel’s Wife (1957), and The Raven’s
Glen (1960) and other works of historical fiction. IF2 ATT DUB
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Works
The Rise of the United Irishmen 1791-94 (George Harrap 1927),
266pp. [infra]; The Rebel’s Wife
(Tralee: The Kerryman 1957) [on the wife of Henry Joy McCracken], author
of The Rise of the United Irishmen and The Troubled House
[signed copy Sybil le Brocquy]; ‘scarcely any of the incidents in
this tale are imaginary’; 32 Chaps., from ‘The Reckless Marriage’,
to ‘Reward at Last’, ‘Interruption’, and ‘Epilogue’,
215pp. Includes the usual characters and others such as such as Napoleon
and Dr. Drennan (‘sing us Dr. Drennan’s masterpiece, do!’,
p.79).
Criticism
Geraldine Meaney, ‘Regendering Modernism: The Woman Artist
in Irish Women’s Fiction’, in Women: a Cultural Review
15, 1 (March 2004), pp. 67-82 [considered with Kate O’Brien].
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Notes
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919),
lists Callaghan (Dublin: Lester 1921]), 248pp. [a returning American
involved with Sinn Féin before 1916]; The Troubled House
(Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1938) [family divisions during Guerrilla Days];
The Rebel’s Wife, ‘autobiography’ of wife of Wolfe
Tone (Tralee: Kerryman 1957); The Raven’s Glen (Figgis 1960)
[present day Irish children’s story].
Denis Ireland, in From an Irish Shore (1939), talks with
lady author of biography of McCracken and ‘find it extremely difficult
to make a solemn declaration to her, a graduate of TCD ... [&c.]’.
Prob. Rosamund Jacob.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)