E. Owens Blackburne

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A professional writer, who always wrote under her pseudonym, EOB produced novels, short stories, poetry, journalism, and biographical work during the course of her relatively short career in the late nineteenth century. Her fiction and poetry was often set in her native Ireland, and makes frequent use of Irish dialect and traditional stories.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Owens Blackburne CaseyE. Owens Blackburne
  • Self-constructed: Elizabeth Owens Blackburne CaseyE. Owens Blackburne
Title page from the first volume of Owens Blackburne's most popular publication, "Illustrious Irishwomen, being Memoirs of some of The Most Noted Irishwomen from the Earliest Age to the Present Century", Tinsley Brothers, 1877. Some of her previous titles are listed. The copy used once belonged to Boston College Library, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Milestones

10 May 1848

EOB was born Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey, in Slane, near the Boyne River, County Meath, Ireland.
Scholar D. J. O'Donoghue disagrees with other sources and reports her birth date as 10 May 1845.
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968.
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Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1877

EOB produced her two-volume work of biography, Illustrious Irishwomen.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

6 April 1894

EOB was burned to death in an accident at her house in Drumcondra, Dublin.
Times. Times Publishing Company.
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Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.

Biography

Birth and Family

10 May 1848

EOB was born Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey, in Slane, near the Boyne River, County Meath, Ireland.
Scholar D. J. O'Donoghue disagrees with other sources and reports her birth date as 10 May 1845.
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968.
62
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

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