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Emily Lawless (1845–1913)
Lawless, Emily, Hon. An Irish novelist, daughter of the third Baron Cloncurry; born in 1845; died in 1913. She is the author of several popular romances of Irish life, full of pathos and picturesqueness, among which may be noticed: ‘A Millionaire’s Cousin’ (1885); ‘Hurrish’ (1886), a study; ‘Grania’ (1892), her most powerful work; ‘Maelcho’ (1894), a story of the rebellion of Sir James Fitzmaurice in the sixteenth century; ‘With the Wild Geese,’ poems (1902); ‘Book of Gilly’ (1906). She is also author of ‘Ireland’ (1887) in the ‘Story of the Nations’ series.