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Kathleen O'Meara (writer)

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Kathleen O'Meara
Born1839
Dublin
Died10 November 1888
Paris
Pen nameGrace Ramsay
NationalityIrish-French

Kathleen O'Meara or Grace Ramsay (1839 – 10 November 1888) was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British catholic magazine.

Life

O'Meara was born in Dublin in 1839 and she emigrated to France when she was a child. her grandfather, Barry Edward O'Meara, had been Napoleon's physician and for this reason her mother had a pension from the French state.

O'Meara wrote novels that were based around Catholicism and she wrote biographies of leading Catholics. Her publishers tried to reduce any pre-disposed discrimination by giving her the less catholic nom-de-plume of Grace Ramsay.[1]

She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British catholic magazine.[2]

O'Meara died in Paris in 1888.[1]

Works include

  • Frederick Ozanam, Professor at the Sorbonne, his Life and Works, 1876
  • The Old House in Picardy, 1887
  • Narka, a Story of Russian Life, 1888
  • The Venerable John Baptiste Vianney, Curé d'Ars, 1891

References

  1. ^ a b Thompson Cooper, ‘O'Meara, Kathleen (1839–1888)’, rev. Maria Luddy, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Dec 2014
  2. ^ Public Domain Flaherty, M. (1913). "Kathleen O'Meara". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |Retrieved= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

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