Annie Keary

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AK , writing in the second half of the nineteenth century, produced both children's books and adult novels, as well as some translation and journalism, sometimes in collaboration with her sister Eliza. Her fiction for children is refreshingly imaginative and conveys morals less intrusively than that of many contemporaries. Her books of information for children cover geography and ancient history. Her letters include much that is still worth reading.

Milestones

3 March 1825

AK was born at Bilton Ainsty in Yorkshire, the sixth child in a family which in the end numbered eight.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan.
3, 19

Later 1875

AK published what is now her best-known novel, Castle Daly, The Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago.
“Review of Miss Keary’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Castle Daly</span&gt”;. The Nation, New York, Vol.
545
, pp. 374-6.
374-5

After March 1879

AK 's final novel, A Doubting Heart, having been left not quite finished at her death, appeared in print the same year with a conclusion contributed by her friend Katharine S. Macquoid .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

3 March 1879

AK died in London in the early hours of her fifth-fourth birthday.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan.
249

Biography

Birth and Family

3 March 1825

AK was born at Bilton Ainsty in Yorkshire, the sixth child in a family which in the end numbered eight.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan.
3, 19

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