Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene

Lady Louisa Lilias (Lelias) Plunket Greene (7 November 1833 – 30 March 1891) was an Irish author of children's stories writing under the names: Louisa Lilias Greene, Louisa Lilias Plunket, Baroness Greene, R. J. Greene, Louisa Lelias Greene.[1]

The Hon. Louisa Lelias Greene (Plunket)

The Hon. Louisa Lelias Plunket was born on 7 November 1833, the daughter of John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newton (1793-1871) and Charlotte Bushe, daughter of the Right Hon. Charles Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland.[2] Her siblings were: William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket and Archbishop of Dublin; Charles Bushe Plunket (1830-1880); David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore; Hon. Arthur Cecil Crampton Plunket (1845-1884); Patrick Henry Coghill Plunket (b. 1845); Anna Plunket (d. 1884); Katherine Frances Coghill (d. 1881); Hon. Charlotte Plunket (d. 1878); Emily Mary Plunket; Selina Maria Plunket; Josephine Alice Plunket; Isabella Katherine Plunket.[3]

On 27 July 1852 she married Richard Jonas Greene, son of the Right Hon. Richard Wilson Greene, Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, and Elizabeth Wilson.[2] Their children were:

  1. Charlotte Selina Franks (1853-1883);
  2. The Right Hon. Sir William Conyngham Greene (1854-1934);
  3. Elizabeth Alice Greene;
  4. Charles Kendal Greene;
  5. Prof. Harry Plunket Greene (1865-1936); and
  6. Geoffrey Philip Greene (1868-1930).[4]

Louisa Lelias Plunket Greene died on 30 March 1891 in Dublin, Ireland.[2]

Works
  • Across the Garden Wall
  • Alda's Leap And Other Stories
  • Bound by a spell, or the Hunted Witch of the Forest (1885)
  • The Broken Promise, And Other Tales (1870)
  • The Brother and Sister, or What Can It Matter?
  • Cushions and Corners, or Holidays At Old Orchard
  • Filling Up The Chinks
  • The Golden Wrens, A tale (1898)
  • The grey house on the hill (1870)
  • Harry Galbraith, or The Pierced Eggs (1887)
  • The Lost Opal Ring (1905)
  • The Lost Telegram (1908)
  • Nettle Coats, or The Silent Princess[5]
  • On Angels' Wings, or the Story of a Little Violet of Edelsheim (1885)
  • Prince Croesus in Search of a Wife[5]
  • The School-boy Baronet
  • A Winter and Summer at Burton Hall, A Children's Tale (1861)
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References
  1. Ledbetter, Gordon T. "Greene, Harry Plunket". The Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
  3. "Lord Chancellor of Ireland". libraryireland. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  4. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976
  5. Newey, K. (2005). Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. Springer. p. 211. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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