Barbara Hemphill (died 1858) was an
Irish writer of novels.
Life
Hemphill was the youngest child of the absentee clergyman, Patrick Hare, who was nominally responsible for the settlement of
Golden, County Tipperary.
[Brigitte Anton, ‘Hemphill, Barbara (d. 1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200]
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/ref> Hemphill initially published her novels without identifying herself after being encouraged by the antiquary Thomas Crofton Croker.
She married John Hemphill in 1807 and they had five children. The youngest of their children was the first Baron Hemphill.[J. G. S. Macneill, ‘Hemphill, Charles Hare, first Baron Hemphill (1822–1908)’, rev. Terence A. M. Dooley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200]
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/ref> Her 1846 novel ''Lionel Deerhurst'', was edited by the Countess Marguerite Blessington.[
Hemphill died on 5 May 1858 at 6 Lower Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin.][
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Works
*''Lionel Deerhurst'', or, ''Fashionable Life under the Regency'', 1846
*''The Priest's Niece'', or, ''The Heirship of Barnulph'', 1855
*''Freida the Jongleur'', 1857
References
1858 deaths
Irish women novelists
Writers from Dublin (city)
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