Life
1860-1922 [née Sweetman; s. of M. E. Francis]; The Bath of Comedy (Macmillan 1901); French Nan (Smith, Elder 1905); If Youth
But Knew (Smith Elder 1906); Flower o’ the Orange and Other
Stories (Methuen 1908); The Star Dreamer (Constable 1903).
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References
Irish Literature, Justin McCarthy, ed. (Washington: University
of America 1904); Mrs Agnes Egerton Castle, a sister of M. E. Francis,
and of Elinor Sweetman, m. Anthony Egerton Castle, 1883, and collaborated
with him on the Pride of [?]Jenrico (1897), selling 100,000
in England and US; The Bath Comedy (1898), dramatised version secured
by David Belasco; The House of Romance (1900), stories; The
Secret Orchard (1901), dramatised by Mr & Mrs Kendal; independent
work, My Little Lady Anne; several plays for children, and magazine
stories in Temple Bar, Cornhill Magazine, and Macmillan’s.
JMC shows photo port. looking pretty and leisured in cane chair on lawn;
selects ‘An Affair of Honor’ from Temple Bar [‘Gad,
you are a bloodthirsty fellow!’; ‘Zounds, man, would you have
him sit down in his dishonor?’]
5 above listed titles available from Eggeling Catl. No. 44.
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