Irish authoress, the daughter of Professor Barlow of Trinity College, Dublin. Her first work, Walled Out, appeared in the Dublin University Magazine, anonymously, in 1885, but her Irish Idylls, published in October 1892, brought her immediate recognition. Her Bogland Studies; Kerrigan’s Quality; The Mockers of the Shallow Waters; The End of Elfin Town; Maureen’s Fairing (1895); and Mrs. Martin’s Company (1896), have been scarcely less successful. Critics have said that she has done for the peasantry of Ireland what J. M. Barrie has done for those of Scotland. Her brogue is well rendered, and her characters are free from the Irish whine of grievances. See also “The Widow Joyce’s Cloak.”
