Agnes Romilly White

Agnes Romilly White (1872–1945) was an Irish novelist who wrote about the poverty, bereavement and comedy that she saw around her.[1]

Agnes Romilly White
Born	1872 County Tyrone, Ireland
Died	1945
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Irish

Life and work

White was the born to Rev. Robert White and his wife Anna Maria in Tyrone.[2] Her father was the rector of St. Elizabeth's Church of Ireland and was based in Dundonald, from 1890 to 1912.[1][3] White made the small village and the cottages famous in her books.[4] White had at least 2 sisters and 2 brothers. One of her brothers was Herbert Martin Oliver White, a lecturer at Queen's University was appointed to the Chair of English at Trinity College Dublin over the poet Austin Clarke.[5]

She was thought to be an excellent observer of people and criticism of her appeared in Punch and The Observer:[6] ‘The lilt of the dialogue goes to one's head like wine: the spell is laid upon one as soon as any character chose to open his mount.'

Bibliography

• Gape Row. White Row. 1988. ISBN 978-1-870132-10-7.
• Mrs Murphy Buries the Hatchet. White Row. 1936. ISBN 978-1-870132-25-1.
• The Irish Monthly. McGlashan & Gill. 1903.

References

1. John Wilson Foster (14 December 2006). The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel. Cambridge University Press. pp. 156–. ISBN 978-1-139-82788-1.
2. "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". Retrieved November 7, 2016.
3. "Dundonald Railway Station, Then and Now... DUNDONALD VILLAGE". Dundonaldrail.co.uk. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
4. Aidan Campbell (15 April 2016). Belfast Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-1-4456-3660-3.
5. Norman Vance (11 June 2014). Irish Literature Since 1800. Routledge. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-1-317-87050-0.
6. "Agnes Romilly White". Ricorso.net. Retrieved November 7, 2016.

Further reading

• "corresp with family and publishers". Discovery national archives. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
• Michael Montgomery (2006). From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English. Ulster Historical Foundation. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-1-903688-61-8.
• Colin Duriez (2 May 2013). C S Lewis: A biography of friendship. Lion Books. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-7459-5725-8.