Theresa Cornwallis West (née Whitby; 1806–1886) (''Mrs F. West'') was a British author. She is most noted for her ''A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846'' and wrote stories for children, young adults and even a novel for adults (''The Doom of Doolandour''). Her

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, written as a member of the English upper class visiting Ireland as a tourist, in the early stages of the

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has proven a valuable source of both information and views. She was born at Newlands Manor, Hampshire to the Royal Navy Captain John Whitby (

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for Admiral Sir

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) and Mary Anne Theresa Whitby (1783–1850) (née Symonds, the writer, landowner, artist and reintroducer of sericulture to England). Theresa married, in 1827,

Frederick Richard West Frederick Richard West (6 February 1799 – 1 May 1862) was a British Tory MP for Denbigh Boroughs and East Grinstead. He was a member of the Canterbury Association. Early life West was born in 1799 in Hanover Square, London. He was the third ...

(1799–1862) of

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and unlike his first wife bore children and went on to outlive him.Williams, William H. A., 2011, ''Creating Irish Tourism: The First Century, 1750–1850, Anthem Press

Selected works

* West, Theresa Cornwallis Whitby., 1847. ''A summer visit to Ireland in 1846''. London: R. Bentley. * West, Theresa Cornwallis, 1884. ''The Doom of Doolandour. A Chronicle of Two Races''. London: Wyman & Sons * West, Theresa Cornwallis J., 1876. ''All for an Ideal: a Girl's dream of a past period''. * West, Theresa Cornwallis J., 1883. ''God's Arithmetic: with other stories for the young''. London: Partridge & Co. * West, Theresa Cornwallis J., 1855. ''Frescoes and Sketches from Memory''. J. Mitchell, London * West, Theresa Cornwallis J., 1903. ''For the Sake of a Crown: a tale of the Netherlands''. Religious Tract Society: London.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:West, Theresa Cornwallis 1806 births 1886 deaths 19th-century English women writers