Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
| Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1860 County Roscommon |
| Died |
1911 |
| Occupation | translator, journalist, essayist, novelist |
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles (1860–1911) was an Irish writer, translator, and journalist.
Life
She was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, about 1860, the fourth daughter of Alexander O’Conor Eccles of Ballingard House, founder of The Roscommon Messenger, a home-rule newspaper. She was educated in England, France and Germany. She later lived in London where after a number of setbacks she got a start as a journalist in the London office of the New York Herald. She went on to become a staff member of the Daily Chronicle and the Star.[1]
With Sir Horace Plunkett she wrote and lectured around Ireland for the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction.[1]
Her first novel, The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore, was published in 1897 under the pseudonym Hal Godfrey. She also contributed to a number of periodicals, including the Irish Monthly, the Pall Mall Magazine, the American Ecclesiastical Review and the Windsor Magazine.
Her books included The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore, a farcical novel (London: Jarrold & Sons 1897); Aliens of the West (London: Cassell 1904); The Matrimonial Lottery (London: Eveleigh Nash 1906).[2] She died in 1911, following a reported nervous breakdown which proved fatal. An obituary in The Times newspaper described Aliens of the West as "one of the best modern books of short stories on Ireland yet written" [3]
References
- 1 2 RIA/Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009) Vol. III, p. 568
- ↑ Stephen Brown (1919 (rep. Shannon: IUP 1969)). Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore. Part I. Dublin: Maunsel. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jun 15, 1911; pg. 11; Issue 39612.