Catherine Drummond

Her sister and brother-in-law Catherine and Charles Drummond organized the private funeral. A death notice appeared three days later in the Irish Times, but it made no reference to her successful literary career.

Laffan used the royalties of her second novel, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, for her own further education and the education of her only surviving younger sister, Catherine . She attended Alexandra College in Dublin...

Little is known about her life from this moment until her death. Bloomfield was a private institution for families with money, and had large and elegant grounds; the patients were not treated harshly. ML 's...