Life
1878-1963 [Jessica Louisa Richard]; b. Dublin; author of The
Light Above the Crossroads; Dregs; The Frantic Boast,
&c.; The Fire of the Green Boughs (1918). IF
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Notes
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919),
lists The Fire of the Green Boughs (Duckworth 1918), 311pp.; Sylvia
Tracy, rebel against conventions; perverse reasonableness in all her
vagaries; Ireland in its present disturbed state’; London under air-raid;
harbours dying German officer in Kerry estate nr. Tralee given her by
her uncle; rescued from troubles by Willie Kent, Nat. MP, and marries
him.
Eggeley Books (Cat. 44) lists The House of Courage (Duckworth 1919), (viii), 376pp.; novel of Irish POW torture and torment in eponymous prison.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)