?1835-1869; b. Limerick; wrote for The Leisure Hour and published with Religious Text Society; her earliest novel, Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement (1863 or 1864), is considered part of Canadian literature; also issued The Foster-Brothers of Doon: A Tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1890), and Golden Hills (1865), a tale of Famine days focussing on the philanthropy of a landlord family and impugning agrarian violence.
