LADY MORGAN (SYDNEY OWENSON)
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An Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in Dublin, about 1783; died in London, April 14, 1859. The daughter of an Irish actor, she became a leader in London Society. Among her works were the novels "The Wild Irish Girl" (1806), her most successful book; "O'Donnel" (1814); "Florence Macarthy" (1816); "The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys" (1827); etc. She wrote also: "France under the Bourbons" (1817), and its companion, "Italy" (1821), two books which excited furious opposition; "Woman and her Master" (1840); "Autobiography" (1858); songs, comic operas, biographies, travels, etc. See her "Memoirs", edited by Hepworth Dixon (2 vols., 1862).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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