Florence Mary Wilson (–1946) was a poet who wrote the ballad '' The Man from God Knows Where''.

Life

Born in

Lisburn Lisburn (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with ...

, Co. Antrim to Robert Addy a mill manager, she married solicitor Fred Wilson in 1898 and lived in Bangor, County Down with whom she had six children. Wilson was a regular contributor to the Irish Homestead, Northern Whig, and other papers. She was a friend of Alice Milligan and

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. Wilson wrote the ballad, ''The Man from God Knows Where'' in 1918 about Thomas Russell. She wrote a volume of poetry ''The Coming of the Earls'' which was republished frequently and was popular in America.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Florence Mary Irish women poets 1870 births 1946 deaths People from County Antrim People from County Down