Life
1891- [née Lumley], b. Tullamore, Co. Offaly, ed. North Wales;
RIA music teacher; issued Songs of Slieve Bloom [n.d], Cloonagh The Open Arms (1933), Talk of the Townlands (1937, and other Anglo-Irish novels; noted as a dog lover. IF2
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Notes
The Irish Book Lover has notices on Cloonagh [Vol. XX: 48], Irish Airs [XX: 21], The Open Arms [XXI: 68], and A Cloney Carol [XXIII: 156].
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt II] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists Cloonagh (London: Constable 1932); Irish Airs (London: Constable 1932); The Open Arms (London: Constable 1933); The Kind Companion (Dublin: Talbot 1936), ill. Mildred R. Lamb; The Glen of the Sheep (Dublin: Talbot 1936); An Irish Medley (Belfast: Quota 1934); Talk of the Townlands, reprinted from Punch (Dublin: Talbot 1937); The Man of the House (1939); The Quiet Place (1941). For the most part, ‘variations on the old themes of Irish incompetence and frivolity’ [Irish Times reviewer.]
Belfast Public Library holds Cloonagh (1932); Irish Airs (1932); An Irish Medley; The Kind Companion (1936); The Open Arms (1933); Talk in the Townlands (1937), all fiction; also Song of Slieve Bloom (1926).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)