Agnes Romilly White

Agnes Romilly White (1872–1945) was an Irish novelist who wrote about the poverty, bereavement and comedy that she saw around her.[1]

Agnes Romilly White
Born1872
County Tyrone, Ireland
Died1945
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish

Life and work

White was the born to Rev. Robert White and his wife Anna Maria in Tyrone.[2] Her father was the rector of St. Elizabeth's Church of Ireland and was based in Dundonald, from 1890 to 1912.[1][3] White made the small village and the cottages famous in her books.[4] White had at least 2 sisters and 2 brothers. One of her brothers was Herbert Martin Oliver White, a lecturer at Queen's University was appointed to the Chair of English at Trinity College Dublin over the poet Austin Clarke.[5]

She was thought to be an excellent observer of people and criticism of her appeared in Punch and The Observer:[6] ‘The lilt of the dialogue goes to one's head like wine: the spell is laid upon one as soon as any character chose to open his mount.'

Bibliography
  • Gape Row. White Row. 1988. ISBN 978-1-870132-10-7.
  • Mrs Murphy Buries the Hatchet. White Row. 1936. ISBN 978-1-870132-25-1.
  • The Irish Monthly. McGlashan & Gill. 1903.

References
  1. John Wilson Foster (14 December 2006). The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel. Cambridge University Press. pp. 156–. ISBN 978-1-139-82788-1.
  2. "Residents of a house 21 in Ballyregan (Dundonald, Down)". Census of Ireland 1911. The National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  3. "Dundonald Railway Station, Then and Now... DUNDONALD VILLAGE". Dundonaldrail.co.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  4. Aidan Campbell (15 April 2016). Belfast Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-1-4456-3660-3.
  5. Norman Vance (11 June 2014). Irish Literature Since 1800. Routledge. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-1-317-87050-0.
  6. "Agnes Romilly White". Ricorso.net. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

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