Agnes Castle

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Agnes Egerton Castle
Agnes Castle.jpg
BornAgnes Mary Frances Sweetman
c1860
County Dublin
Died1922
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish, Irish

Agnes Castle (c. 1860–1922) was a Victorian era Irish author who worked with both her sisters and husband.[1][2][3] The stories that she co-wrote were the basis of several plays and films.

Life[]

She was born Agnes Mary Frances Sweetman in County Dublin to Margaret Powell and Michael James Sweetman.[4] Her father died when she was a small child. The remaining family moved to Brussels in 1873 and she spent her summers in Switzerland. Her uncle was the novelist , while her sisters, Elinor Sweetman and M. E. Francis, were also writers.[5] With her sisters she began two family magazines: the "Ivy Home Magazine" and "Ivy Home Library".[1][6][7]

Agnes married Egerton Castle in 1883 and co-authored many novels with her husband.[8][9] She also wrote plays for children, as well as stories for magazines such as Temple Bar, Cornhill Magazine, and Macmillan.[7] She has largely been ignored as a writer in favour of her husband. [10] Her daughter was Marie Louise Egerton Castle, also a writer, who became Countess de Meeûs, of Brussels when she married in 1922.[11]

Selected works[]

  • Love Gilds the Scene, and Women Guide the Plot. B. Tauchnitz. 1912.
  • Minuet and Foxtrot. Hutchinson. 1900.
  • The Third Year in the Little House. Hutchinson. 1917.
  • My Merry Rockhurst: Some Episodes in the Life of Viscount Rockhurst, a Friend of the King at One Time Constable of His Majesty's Tower. Tauchnitz. 1908.
  • My Little Lady Anne. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1896.
  • Nan. B. Wahlström. 1918.
  • The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico. Macmillan. 1907.
  • The Bath of Comedy (Macmillan 1901)
  • If Youth But Knew (Smith Elder 1906)
  • Flower o' the Orange and Other Stories (Methuen 1908)
  • The Star Dreamer (Constable 1903)
  • The Composer (1911)
  • Incomparable Bellairs (1903)
  • Rose of the World (1905)
  • The Heart of Lady Anne (1905)
  • Flower o' the Orange and Other Tales of Bygone Days (1908)
  • Panther's Cub (1911)
  • The Golden Barrier (1913)
  • Forlorn Adventures (1915)
  • Minniglen (1918)
  • Our Sentimental Garden illustrated by Charles Robinson (1914, USA; 1915, London)
  • A Little House in War Time (1916)
  • Wolf-Lure (1917)
  • New Wine (1919)
  • John Seneschal's Margaret (1920)
  • Pamela Pounce; a tale of tempestuous petticoats (1921)
  • Diamonds Cut Paste (1922)
  • Wroth
  • The Wind's Will (1916)
  • "The Heart of Lord Mandeville", Vol 19, 1903-04 [included in Incomparabale Bellairs, 1903]
  • "To the Tune of Little Red Heels", Windsor Magazine, Vol 19, 1903-04 [included in Incomparabale Bellairs, 1903]
  • Vengeance Is Mine; Enchanted Casements, Hutchinson 1923

Filmography[]

Agnes co-wrote the books these films were based on.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org.
  2. ^ Walter E. Houghton; Jean Harris Slingerland (1989). The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. pp. 142–. ISBN 978-0-8020-2688-0.
  3. ^ "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Agnes Castle". www.victorianresearch.org.
  4. ^ "Irish Genealogy". churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
  5. ^ Townend, Peter (ed.). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 18th edition. 3 volumes. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd.
  6. ^ James H. Murphy (1997). Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873–1922. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-0-313-30188-9.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "[Mrs] Agnes Egerton Castle". www.ricorso.net.
  8. ^ Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (1997). Castle, Egerton - Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001. ISBN 9780198117605.
  9. ^ Christopher Riches; Michael Cox (29 January 2015). A Dictionary of Writers and their Works. OUP Oxford. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-19-251850-7.
  10. ^ Colman, A. (1994). "Too Many Treasures Remain Veiled". The Irish Review (1986-) (15): 131–133. doi:10.2307/29735744. JSTOR 29735744.
  11. ^ "All About People: Tittle Tattle". Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942). 14 March 1929. p. 26.

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