[Frances Sarah (Johnston)]. Irish author, born at Bushy Park, near Dublin, on the 15th of February 1830. She married A. M. Stewart in 1846, and in 1858 John Cashel Hoey. After 1860 she contributed largely to magazines, and published a large number of novels; also translations of French and Italian works. Among her novels are A House of Cards (1868); The Blossoming of an Aloe (1874); Griffith’s Double (1876); The Question of Cain (1882); The Lover’s Creed (1884); A Stern Chase (1886); The Queen’s Token; His Match and More; and Buried in the Deep. Her translations include The Outbreak of the French Revolution, by Erckmann-Chatrian (1871); Thorwaldsen, His Life and Works, by E. Plon (1873); and The Memoirs of Madame Rémusat (1881).
