Charles A. Read

EOB 's work is frequently anthologised in nineteenth-century collections of Irish literature, but seldom mentioned in more contemporary works. One collection, Charles A. Read 's The Cabinet of Irish Literature, 1881, describes her as...

Concerned for the most part [with] the gloomier side of the national character, viewed, apparently, from a Protestant standpoint, the collection includes the story Biddy Brady's Banshee, written in a heavy Irish brogue...

Charles Read 's The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland appeared, revised, edited, and expanded by KT .

These four volumes were billed as a new edition. It bore her name, giving her credit for revising and greatly extending their contents, while the names of Charles Read and T. P. O'Connor remained as...