Life
1753-1817 [née Alicia Sheridan, Mrs. Le Fanu]; b. Dorset St., Dublin;
dg. of Thomas Sheridan and Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan; sis. of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, m. Joseph Le Fanu, 1776; grandmother of J. S. Le Fanu;
author of Sons of Erin, to the Modern Sentiments [DNB], a 5 act com.
(Lyceum Th., London 1812); d. Royal Hibernian Military Hospital, Phoenix
Park, Dublin, where her son was chaplain. DNB RAF RR OCIL
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Criticism
Dawn Duncan, Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000 (Lampeter, Wales: Mellen Press 2004), 272pp. [ treats of Friel with Alicia LeFanu, Dion Boucicault & W. B. Yeats.]
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. 1, pp.89-90.
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Notes
Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies (1821), Vol. II, p.372 [short life].
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1912), gives bio-dates 1754-1817; her Sons of Erin was successful in London as Prejudice, or Modern Sentiment; wrote some novels [unnamed]; anthol. in Joseph Edkins’s collection (1789-90); a poem of hers appears in Samuel Whyte’s Poems.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)