Elizabeth Hely Walshe Explained

Elizabeth Hely Walshe
Birth Date:	1835
Birth Place:	Limerick
Death Date:	1869
Death Place:	Isle of Wight

Elizabeth Hely Walshe (1835-1869), was an Irish writer of children's stories and histories.

Life

Elizabeth Hely Walshe was born in 1835 in Limerick, Ireland to an evangelical Protestant family. Her father was a clergyman and she had at least one sister. She lived in Canada for some years but was back in Ireland by 1865. She was an accomplished artist and musician. She worked as a Sunday-school teacher. She also believed in the education of the poor. Walshe was a regular contributor to Leisure Hour Magazine and Sunday at Home. She also worked with George Etell Sargent on stories for children. Like many writers of that era the Irish Famine has an impact on the themes of her stories.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Walshe was on the Isle of Wight in 1869 when she died of consumption.^[1]

Bibliography

• Cedar Creek (1863)
• Story of the faith in Hungary
• From dawn to dark in Italy (1865)
• Golden Hills (1865)
• The Manuscript Man (1869)
• The Foster-Brothers of Doon: A Tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1890)
• Within sea walls, or, How the Dutch kept the faith
• Kingston's revenge: a story of bravery and single-hearted endeavour

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elizabeth Hely Walshe (1835-1869), Evangelist Writer. MU Library Treasures . 2016-02-23 . 2019-09-22.
2. Web site: Elizabeth Hely Walshe . Ricorso . 2008-05-21 . 2019-09-22.
3. Book: Deane . S. . Bourke . A. . Carpenter . A. . Williams . J. . The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing . New York University Press . v. 5 . 2002 . 978-0-8147-9907-9 . 2019-09-22 . 924.
4. Book: Lechner, D. . Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870 . transcript Verlag . History in Popular Cultures . 2016 . 978-3-8394-3711-7 . 2019-09-22 . 328.
5. Book: Corporaal, M. . Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870 . Syracuse University Press . Irish Studies . 2017 . 978-0-8156-5398-1 . 2019-09-22 . 144.
6. Book: Piesse, J. . British Settler Emigration in Print, 1832-1877 . OUP Oxford . 2015 . 978-0-19-106726-6 . 2019-09-22 . 83.
7. Book: Humanities Association of Canada . The Humanities Association Bulletin . Humanities Association of Canada. . v. 22-23 . 1971 . 2019-09-22 .
8. Book: Morash, C. . Writing the Irish Famine . Clarendon Press . 1995 . 978-0-19-818279-5 . 2019-09-22 .