Elizabeth Keary

Life
[N.d.; gen. ‘Eliza’]; b. England, to a family from Galway, s. of Annie Keary and Charles F. Keary, authors; wrote a biog. of her sister; “Christina to Mary: A Correspondence” is a longer religious poem reflecting on love, sin and death.

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Works
With Annie Keary, The Heroes of Asgard (1857), and Do. [another edn.], as Christmas Week and its Stories, or the Heroes of Asgard [1860]; Early Egyptian History for the Young, with Annie Keary (1861); Little Seal-skin and Other Poems (London 1874) [infra]; The Magic Valley, or patient Antoine (London 1877); Memoir of Annie Keary (1882), and Do. [another edn.] (1883); ed., Letters of Annie Keary [1883]; Rays of Light, Bible Selections [1884]; The River o’ God, Bible Selections [1884]; A Casket of Pearls, Bible Selections [1884]; At Home Again, verses (London: Marcus Ward & Co [1886]); Pets and Playmates, Verses by EK (London: Marcus Ward & Co 1887); The Francis Letters [Sir Philip Francis, supposed Junius], ed. Beata Francis and Eliza Keary [1901]; Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children, with A. and M. Keary (1914).

Little Seal-skin and Other Poems (London George Bell 1874); Little Seal-skin [1]; The Legend of Thora [11]; Sunbeams in the Sea [15]; The Goose-Girl: A Tale of the Year 2099 [17]; Asdisa: An Icelandic Legend [23]; The Mill Stream [29]; Disenchanted [32]; Renunciation [34]; Through the Wood [35]; Presentiments [38]; Theodora [39]; Two [43]; A Mother’s Call [45]; Mavourneen [47]; Kathleen: written for the Pen and Pencil Club at Aubrey House [49]; Snowbell: A Legend of Summer [51]; Days [86]; Dawn, or the Twilight Chorus [93]; Old Age [95]; A Flower to the Moon [96]; A Sketch [98]; A Portrait [100]; Lucy [101]; Agnes [103]; Doctor Emily [108]; Sleep [114]; Death [116]; Homeless [118]; Incomplete - Complete [119]; A Saint [120]; Christine and Mary: A Correspondence [123]; A Farewell: To Sister Mary of the Blessed Trinity [184]. (See full-text in Victorian Women Writers Project, Indiana Univ. [link] and Quotations, infra.)

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