Life
[née Rufford]; dg. of Anglican clergyman; converted to Catholicism;
author of The Vicar’s Secret; The Fortunes of Fair Free [?]lance; Cold
Comfort; Proud as Lucifer; and One Road to Rome, or Recollections of a
Convert (1927). IF
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References
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction (Dublin: Maunsel 1919),
lists An Irish Landlord and an English MP: A Tale (London: Digby
& Long [n.d.]), 130pp.; concerns the visit of Cyril Armitage, Liberal
MP, ‘full of preconceived and benevolent ideas’, to the Ballymalone
in the west of Ireland, and his disillusionment in face of a wide cast
of Irish characters including Fr. Danroche, a patriot priest, a physician
and his family of girls, and Malachi, the landlord and gs. Of old Mrs
Malone; Malachi is finally murdered by a foster brother when the latter’s
mother is moved from her wretched hovel to a good house.
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