Julia Crottie

Julia M. Crottie
Born	1853 Lismore, Co. Waterford
Died	c.1930
Pen name	Julia Crottie
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Irish

Julia Crottie (1853-c.1930) was an Irish novelist who detailed rural life in Ireland, writing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life

Crottie was born in 1853 in Lismore, Co. Waterford. She was educated by the Presentation Nuns in Waterford before emigrating to America. There she was the editor for Providence Visitor, Rhode Island and released her stories about Ireland which featured satirical portrayals of the people who emigrated from Ireland, returned or never got to emigrate. Her work portrayed some of the less pleasant features of small town rural Ireland. She was compared by the Glasgow Herald to Edgeworth and Carleton. She came back from America to the Isle of Man for a time before returning to the USA.

Criticism

Irish Literature, Justin McCarthy, ed. (Washington: University of America 1904):

[Her] childhood in lifeless atmosphere of an Irish town where she received impressions rendered with sometimes appalling faithfulness in Neighbours and The Lost Land; has lived for some time in America; one of few since Carleton to show fearless realism in her portrayal of Irish character but that does not mean that she does not love her people and deal tenderly with them as well'

Bibliography

• The Lost Land (1901)
• Neighbours (1900)
• Innisdoyle Neighbours (1920)

Further reading

• Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, Alexander G. GonzalezGreenwood Publishing Group, 2006 348 pages
• San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 133, 12 April 1901 : San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 133, 12 April 1901 : GOSSIP FROM LONDON'S WORLD OF LETTERS
• The Spectator: Novels of the week
• Tumult of Images: Essays on W. B. Yeats and Politics, Peter Liebregts, Rodopi, 1995, 249 pages