Charlotte Grace O'Brien

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Irish nationalist CGOB wrote poetry (through the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth, including many sonnets and a closet drama), a single novel about a Fenian uprising, and a number of essays, some published in periodicals and some left in manuscript, about Irish issues, particularly the terrible conditions under which people were emigrating to the USA.
  • BirthName: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983.
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

  • Indexed: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
    The British Library , Bodleian Library , and Cambridge University Library all list her as Charlotte Grace O'Brien; all except the Bodleian ascribe earlier work by Charlotte O'Brien to a different person.

Milestones

23 November 1845

CGOB was born at Cahirmoyle near the village of Ardagh, Limerick (where her father owned 5,000 acres of land), one of a family of five sons and two daughters.
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

November 1869

CGOB wrote the first of four sonnets, not published till after her death, on the statesman William Ewart Gladstone : her changing view of Gladstone in these poems follows the vicissitudes of his policy on Ireland.
O’Brien, Charlotte Grace. Charlotte Grace O’Brien. Editor Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, Maunsel, 1909.
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By 2 November 1878

CGOB published, dedicated to her father , Light and Shade, her novel about the Fenian uprising of March 1867.
This abortive uprising took place in several southern Irish centres including Limerick. CGOB 's father had been a leader of the Young Ireland uprising in 1848. Stephen Gwynn mistakenly dates the uprising 1869.
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
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15 February 1908

CGOB 's specially-written account of her work for Irish emigrants was read out at the Silver Jubilee of the American Mission for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls .
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
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3 June 1909

CGOB died of heart failure at her house, Ardanoir at Foynes.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
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Biography

Birth and Family

23 November 1845

CGOB was born at Cahirmoyle near the village of Ardagh, Limerick (where her father owned 5,000 acres of land), one of a family of five sons and two daughters.
Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, and Charlotte Grace O’Brien. “Introductory Memoir”. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, Maunsel, 1909, pp. 3-135.
9-10
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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