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JULIA KAVANAGH (1824-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 701 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAVANAGH (1824-1877)  , See also:British novelist, was See also:born at See also:Thurles in See also:Tipperary, See also:Ireland, in 1824 . She was the daughter of See also:Morgan See also:Peter See also:Kavanagh (d . 1874), author of various worthless philological See also:works and some poems . Julia spent several years of her See also:early See also:life with her parents in See also:Normandy, laying there the See also:foundation of a mastery of the See also:French See also:language and insight into French modes of thought, which was perfected by her later frequent and See also:long residences in See also:France . See also:Miss Kavanagh's See also:literary career began with her arrival in See also:London about 1844, and her uneventful life affords few incidents to the biographer . Her first See also:book was Three Paths (1847), a See also:story for the See also:young; but her first See also:work to attract See also:notice was Madeleine, a See also:Tale of See also:Auvergne (1848) . Other books followed: A Summer and See also:Winter in the Two Sicilies (1858); French See also:Women of Letters (2862); See also:English Women of Letters (1862); Woman in France during the 18th See also:Century (1850); and Women of See also:Christianity (1852), The scenesof her stories are almost always laid in France, and she handles her French themes with fidelity and skill . Her See also:style is See also:simple and pleasing rather than striking; and her characters are interesting without being strongly individualized . Her most popular novels were perhaps Adele (1857), See also:Queen Mab (1863), and See also:John Dorrien (1875) . On the outbreak of the Franco-See also:German See also:War Julia Kavanagh removed with her See also:mother from See also:Paris to See also:Rouen . She died at See also:Nice on the 28th of See also:October 1877 .

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