Agnes Castle
Agnes Egerton Castle | |
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Born | Agnes Mary Frances Sweetman c1860 County Dublin |
Died | 1922 |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | British, 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.
- The Pride of Jennico, directed by J. Searle Dawley (1914, based on The Pride of Jennico)
- The Incomparable Bellairs, directed by Harold M. Shaw (UK, 1914, based on The Incomparable Bellairs)
- The Secret Orchard, directed by Frank Reicher (1915, based on The Secret Orchard)
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed by James Young (1916, based on The Bath Comedy)
- Rose of the World, directed by Maurice Tourneur (1918, based on Rose of the World)
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed by Alfred E. Green (1930, based on The Bath Comedy)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Agnes Castle". www.victorianresearch.org.
- ^ "Irish Genealogy". churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
- ^ Townend, Peter (ed.). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 18th edition. 3 volumes. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd.
- ^ James H. Murphy (1997). Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873–1922. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-0-313-30188-9.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "[Mrs] Agnes Egerton Castle". www.ricorso.net.
- ^ Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (1997). Castle, Egerton - Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001. ISBN 9780198117605.
- ^ Christopher Riches; Michael Cox (29 January 2015). A Dictionary of Writers and their Works. OUP Oxford. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-19-251850-7.
- ^ Colman, A. (1994). "Too Many Treasures Remain Veiled". The Irish Review (1986-) (15): 131–133. doi:10.2307/29735744. JSTOR 29735744.
- ^ "All About People: Tittle Tattle". Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942). 14 March 1929. p. 26.
External links[]
Wikisource has original works written by or about: Agnes Castle |
- 1860 births
- 1922 deaths
- Irish women novelists