Life
1768-1837, b. Dublin; née Chenevix; her son Richard (see infra)
edited her travel journals and letters as Remains (1862), compared
to Walpole’s Letters. [DIW] PI DIB DIW ODNB
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Criticism
‘The Saga of James MacPherson’s Ossian’, in Linen Hall
Review (Sept 1991), pp.5-9.
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1912) , notes that her travel journals
were edited by her son R. C. T., Archbishop of Dublin, as Remains (1862);
also [anon.,] Campaspe and other poems (Southampton 1815), and
[anon.,] Laura’s Dream (London 1816).
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Notes
Michael McCraith quotes a letter from Melasine Trench in Paris to her
husband in Ireland, 1804, ‘I regret the sensibility I wasted on Werther,
as a girl, and shall never let it appear in my house now that I am the
mother of a family ... [During her youth she] shed torrents of tears over
it, adopted its opinions, and laid the first stone of that false taste
by which I was for many years subjugated.’
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