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Life
fl. 1876; sister-in-law and adopted dg. of Robert Buchanan; lived for a time in Co. Mayo; issed The Queen of Connaught (1881), concerning an Engilsh who marries a girl of old Western family, and tries unsuccessfully to reform the Connaught peasantry; includes a police chase over the snowy mountains; The Dark Colleen (1876), in which an Irish girl marries a Frenchman washed up on the west coast, and pursues him to France after he deserts her; The Priest’s Blessing (1881), a sectarian sketch of life in the West of Ireland; My Connaught Cousins (1883) is narrated as stories by Jack Kenmare who visits his uncle in Connaught and becomes engaged to one of the cousins of the title. IF
Works
The Queen of Connaught (London: Chatto & Windus 1875); The Dark Colleen (London: Bentley 1876); The Priest’s Blessing: or, oor Patrick’s Progress from this World to a Better (London: F. V. White 1881); My Connaught Cousins, with a preface by Robert Buchanan, 3 vol. (London: L F. V. White & Co. 1883) [IF]
References
Ireland in Fiction, ed. Stephen Brown (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), notes that The Priest’s Blessing (1881)is ‘objectionable ... from a Catholic point of view’ and ‘very hostile to the priesthood in Ireland’ as containing heavy drinking clergy who incite peasants to murder and maintain them in ‘bovine ignorance’; ‘can only be described as “Orange”.’
British Library holds A Marriage of Convenience: A tale, 3 vol. (London: F. V. White & Co. 1885), 8o.; [2] Madge Dunraven: A tale by the author of The Queen of Connaught, & [1881.] 8o.; [3] My Connaught Cousins, with a preface by Robert Buchanan, 3 vol. (London: L F. V. White & Co. 1883 [1882]. 8o.; [4] Robert Buchanan. Some account of his life, his life’s work and his literary friendships. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903), xii, 324pp.,. 8o. [5] The Dark Colleen ... By the author of ‘The Queen of Connaught’ [i.e. H. J.]. 1878. 8o.; [6] The Priest’s Blessing: or, poor Patrick’s progress from this world to a better. [A tale.]. x, 308pp. (London: F. V. White and Co. 1881), 8o.; [7] The Queen of Connaught, etc. [By H. J.]; [8] The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown (London: R. Buchanan 1897), 250pp., 8o.; [9] Through the Stage Door: A novel, 3 vol. (London: F. V. White & Co. 1883), 8o.; [10] Two Men and a Maid: A Tale, 3 vol. (London: White & Co. 1881), 8o. [White titles printed Edinburgh.]
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