Agnes Romilly White | |
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Born | 1872 County Tyrone, Ireland |
Died | 1945 |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Irish |
Agnes Romilly White (1872–1945) was an Irish novelist who wrote about the poverty, bereavement and comedy that she saw around her.[1]
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.'