Olivia Clarke
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laughing comedy in which women triumph over men.
suspected her of contributing to her
's novels.
, sister of the more famous Irish writer
, reads like an eighteenth-century writer though she was active in the early nineteenth century. She produced spirited light verse (always good-humoured though sometimes sharply satirical), and a light-hearted The sixth earl of Albemarle (who died in 1891 after holding the title forty years) seems a more likely commentator on
than the fourth, William Charles Keppel, who died in 1849, or the fifth, Augustus Frederick Keppel, who died insane in 1851.