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A popular English writer; born at Thurles, Ireland, Jan. 7, 1824; died at Nice, Oct. 28, 1877. She wrote a large number of novels, the scenes of which were almost invariably laid in France, where she had resided: among them "Daisy Burns" (3 vols., 1853); also "Woman in France during the 18th Century" (2 vols., 1850), "A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies" (2 vols., 1858), "French Women of Letters" (1862). She was best known by the novels she published in magazines. One of the best of recent English authors.