Catherine 'Kate' Charlotte Maberly (1805 – 7 February 1875) was an

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writer.

Biography

Born Catherine Charlotte Prittie in November 1805 in Corville,

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, Ireland, Maberly was the daughter of Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie and Elizabeth Ponsonby. Her brother Henry Prittie became the 3rd

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of Kilboy when their uncle, Henry Sadleir Prittie, died childless. She married

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on 11 November 1830. Maberly was a novelist who wrote predominantly historical fiction though she also wrote some non fiction. Maberley's 1851 novel ''The Lady and the Priest'' is about the life of King

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, and his relationships with his mistress

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, and his antagonist,

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. She is buried in

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on the

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with her only son, William Anson Robert Maberly.

Bibliography

* Display * The locket ; or, the history of Mr. Singleton * Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale * The lady and the priest. An historical romance * Fashion and Its Votaries * The Present State of Ireland and Its Remedy * Leonora * The art of conversation with remarks on fashion and address * Leontine, or the Court of Louis the fifteenth * The Grand Vizier's daughter. An historical romance of the fifteenth century * Melanthe; Or the Days of the Medici * A day near Turin : an opera in two acts * The Love-Match

References

1805 births 1875 deaths 19th-century Irish novelists 19th-century Irish women writers Irish historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages Women historical novelists Daughters of barons {{Ireland-writer-stub