Life
Author of Old Trinity, A Story of Real Life (1867), for which there
is a notice in Lubbers, History of Irish Fiction .., in German
(1985).
Commentary
James
Cahalan, The Irish Novel (1988), p.77; “Like Lever in Lord Kilgobbin,
a couple of Big House novelists adapted this usually conservative form
to stories of Fenian rebels, although with less success than lever; Riddell
in Maxwell Drewitt (1865) and T. Mason Jones in Old Tirinity
(1867).”
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