Emily Charlotte de Burgh, Countess of Cork (

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: ''de Búrca''; ; ; 19 October 1828 – 10 October 1912) was a British poet, writer, and member of the Irish aristocracy.

Biography

Cork was born on 19 October 1828 to

Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (; ; ; ; ; ; 20 December 1802 – 10 April 1874), styled Lord Dunkellin (; ) until 1808 and The Earl of Clanricarde from 1808 until 1825, was a British Whig politician who served as British Amb ...

and Harriet Canning, daughter of British Prime Minister

George Canning George Canning (11 April 17708 August 1827) was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the Unit ...

. She was their second daughter. She married

Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery KP, PC (19 April 1829 – 22 June 1904), styled Viscount Dungarvan between 1834 and 1856, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. In a ministerial career spanning between ...

on 20 July 1853. She was known as The Lady Emily Dungarvan until she became Countess of Cork in 1856, upon her husband's ascension to the earldom. The couple had seven children. Cork wrote poetry, short stories and articles which was published in periodicals such as

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and in 1903 she published ''Letters to and from Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery and John Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery''. She died in London in 1912.

Bibliography

Poems

* To Friends after Death, (1886) * Les Laveuses de Nuit, (1900) * Work On—Stand Fast, (1898)

Articles

* The Chronicle of a Street, (1895) * Early Romances of the Century, (1896) * Etiquette: Its Uses, Abuses, Changes, and Phases, (1901) * "Our Neighbour", (1891) * Society Again!, (1893) * Three Types of Womanhood, (1889) * Types of Character in the Book of Proverbs, (1892) * A Woman's View, (1897)

Short stories, Books

* The True Legend of the Zephyr and the Rose, (1893) *The Orrery Papers, Vols I and II, (1903)

References and sources

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