Life
1892- ? [Mrs. Kathleen Foyle; née Kathleen Brown]; b. Belfast , dg. of Rev Walter Brown of St. Andrew’s Church and later a parish in Fermanagh; author of novels, The Doctor’s Lady (1949), Whither Thou Goest (1952), Dancing Town (1953), Other People’s Shoes (1954); also Turn the Hour
(London: Peter Davies 1958), stories. IF2
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), calls her novelist and critic and cites The Lonely Guest; Marrying into the Millestons; This is Tomorrow; and children’s books such
as Towpath Tad, and The Little Black Calf. IF2 lists The Little Good People [leprechauns] (London: Warne 1949), 163pp.; The Doctor’s Lady (London: Peter Davies 1949), 224pp. [light comedy of romance and misunderstandings set in ‘Augherim’]; Whither Thou Goest (London: Peter Davies 1952), 215pp. [Church of Ireland families with English outlook in post-war N. Ireland]; Dancing Town (London: Peter Davies 1953), 319pp. [set in Braidtown, nr. Ballymena, mill-owner’s family, love and kindlier atmosphere in harsh industrial climate]; Other People’s Shoes (London: Peter Davies 1954), 222pp. [‘Augherim’ again]; Turn the Hour (London: Peter Davies 1958) [love stories of dg. of London clergyman and Irish Matron, ending in Dublin, ‘Cinderella touch’].
Belfast Public Library holds Dancing Town (1953); Doctor’s Lady (1949); Little Good People (1949); Other People’s Shoes (1954); Whither Thou Goest (1951).
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