Grace Kennedy (1782 – 28 February 1825) was a

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writer. She was the fourth daughter of Robert Kennedy of Pinmore, county Ayr, and Robina, daughter of John Vans Agnew, of Barnbarrow, county Galloway. She was born at Pinmore in

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, but at an early age moved to

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. She wrote novels of a religious tendency which were very popular in their day. By 1920, they were very little read. She is best known as the author of ''Father Clement'' (1823), an anti-

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, which ran through some dozen editions and was translated into most of the languages of Europe. She was writing Philip Colville, a Covenanter's Story when she died in 1825. A collection of her works in six volumes appeared at Edinburgh in 1827, and a German translation of them, ''Sämmtliche Werke'', in

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in 1838 and another one in 1842.

Publications

* ''Decision'' (1821) * ''Profession is not Principle'' (1822) * ''Jessy Allan, or The Lame Girl'' (1822) * ''Father Clement'' (1823) * ''Anna Ross'' (1824) * ''Andrew Campbell's Visit to his Irish Cousins'' (1824) * ''The Word of God and the Word of Man'' (1824) * ''Dunallan'' (second edition, 1825) * ''Philip Colville'' (unfinished, 1825)

References

Sources

* The Works of Grace Kennedy (Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1827) * *

External links

* 1782 births 1825 deaths Scottish women novelists 19th-century Scottish writers 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers {{Scotland-writer-stub