Henry Stratford Persse (1769–1833) was an

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writer. Persse was a younger son of the Persse family of

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, and of the same family as

Lady Gregory Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (''née'' Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, ...

. Because he inherited not wealth or land estate, he was a Landwaiter of the

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House in Galway for about twenty years before his death in 1833. He was married to Anne Sadleir and had twenty-two children. Ten of these survived infancy. Of these, Richard, Dudley and Theophilus were sent by their father to America in 1821 with various siblings following after. Their correspondence has been edited and published, providing a valuable insight to the mindset of the Irish middle class in the early 19th century.

References

* ''The Persse Story: The Persse Family Letters - The Nineteenth Century'', New Haven, Ms., privately printed, 1988. * ''"Nothing But Misery All Around Me:" Henry Stratford Persse and the Galway Famine of 1822'', James L. Pethica and James Charles Roy, eds, Journal of the

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, volume 47, 1995, pp. 1–35. * ''"To The Land of the Free from this Island of Slaves" Henry Stratford Persse's Letters from Galway to America, 1821-1832'', Pethica and Roy, Cork University Press, 1998. * ''"I Prefer a Free Country" Letter To And From County Galway Emigrants 1843-1856'', James Charles Roy, Journal of the

, volume 56, 2004, pp. 85–153. {{DEFAULTSORT:Persse, Henry Stratford Writers from County Galway 1833 deaths Year of birth unknown 1769 births