Life
1892-?; b. Mallow; left Ireland at her marriage; prolific romance novelist.
Redferne, M.H.F., An Irish Stew (London: Mills & Boon 1929),
et al. IF2
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Works
Elizabeth Who Wouldn’t (London: Mills & Boon 1919); Referne,
M.F.H.: An Irish Stew (London: Mills & Boon 929); Three Meet
(London: Mills & Boon 1930); Aunts in Arcady: An Irish Idyll
(London: Mills & Boon 1930); Taken at the Flood (London: Mills
& Boon 1931); Strange Lover (London: Mills & Boon 1933);
Moon and Magpies (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1931), Rescuing
Anne (London: Collins 1933); Independence (London: Collins
1935); Travelling Light (London: Collins 1935); Much Dithering
(London: Collins 1938); Invitation, (London: Collins 1934).
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Notes
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal
Carbery 1985), lists Elizabeth Who Wouldn’t (London: Mills
& Boon 1919); Referne, M.F.H., An Irish Stew (London: Mills
& Boon 929); Three Meet (London: Mills & Boon 1930); Aunts
in Arcady, an Irish Idyll (London: Mills & Boon 1930); Taken
at the Flood (London: Mills & Boon 1931); Strange Lover
(London: Mills & Boon 1933); Moon and Magpies (London: Hodder
& Stoughton 1931), Rescuing Anne (London: Collins 1933); Independence
(London: Collins 1935); Travelling Light (London: Collins 1935);
Much Dithering (London: Collins 1938); and Invitation, (London:
Collins 1934). IF2 notes that the substance of her novels consists of
visits to Ireland on pretexts of hunting, relations-visiting, wooing;
pictures of decaying big houses and Anglo-Irish families in the same condition;
chars include Elizabeth O’Hara (Ardprior house); Derrick O’Connor;
Mrs Coyningham-Smith and her sister Madame O’Callaghan; Condons and
Sir William Clangibbon.
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