Julia Crottie Explained

Julia M. Crottie
Birth Date:1853
Birth Place:Lismore, County Waterford
Death Date:c.1930
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:Irish

Julia M. Crottie (1853 – about 1930), sometimes seen as Julia Crotty, was an Irish novelist who detailed rural life in Ireland, writing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Early life

Crottie was born in 1853 in Lismore, County Waterford. She was educated at the Presentation Convent school in Waterford, before emigrating to America.[1] [2] [3]

Career

Writing

Crottie wrote short stories[4] [5] and novels,[6] and contributed to periodicals, including Catholic World.[7] Her stories about Ireland featured satirical portrayals of the people who emigrated from Ireland, returned or never got to emigrate. Her work portrayed some of the less pleasant features of small town rural Ireland.[8] Many of her stories were set in fictional Innesdoyle, substantially based on Lismore,[9] of which she wrote, "Nobody who has not lived in a stagnant town like Innisdoyle can know to what blackness of malice... suspicion may lead".

Reception

Crottie was compared by the Glasgow Herald to Edgeworth and Carleton.[10] She was a correspondent of Katharine Tynan and of Edmund Downey, among other Irish literary figures.[11] "I have heard it said that Miss Crottie shows us too much of what is unlovely and pitiful, and mean", commented critic Justin McCarthy in 1901, "but the complaint seems to me to be about as unreasonable as it would be to find fault with Charles Dickens" for similar unlikeable characters.[12] Crottie's first novel, Neighbors, was presented to King Edward VII when he stayed at Lismore Castle in 1904.[13]

Personal life

She moved from the United States to the Isle of Man for a time. She died about 1930, in her seventies.

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Julia M. Crottie. The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. en. 2020-03-29.
  2. Book: Marchbanks, Paul. https://books.google.com/books?id=quocyNYLbLcC&q=Julia+Crottie&pg=PA72. Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. 2006. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-32883-1. Gonzalez. Alexander G.. 72–75. en. Julia M. Crottie.
  3. Book: McCarthy. Justin. Irish Literature. Egan. Maurice Francis. Hyde. Douglas. Welsh. Charles. Gregory. Lady. Roche. James Jeffrey. 1904. J. D. Morris. 758. en.
  4. News: Crottie. Julia M.. Mr. O'Reilly's Outing. 1899-11-04. The Nottinghamshire Guardian. 2020-03-29. 6. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: Crottie. Julia M.. The House that Bertha Built. 1902-01-19. The Philadelphia Times. 2020-03-29. 20. Newspapers.com.
  6. Book: Ireland in Fiction. Maunsel. 1919. Stephen Brown.
  7. Crottie, Julia M. "The Glenribbon Baby" Catholic World 40(2)(December 1884): 417-425.
  8. 8 September 1900. Review of Neighbours by Julia M. Crottie. The Athenaeum. 3802. 309.
  9. Book: Power, Patrick. The Place-names of Decies. 1907. D. Nutt. 14. en.
  10. Web site: Waterford Novelists & Playwrights. Munster Literature Centre. 2020-03-29.
  11. Catherine Fahey, Collection List for the Edmund Downey Papers, National Library of Ireland.
  12. Justin McCarthy, "A New Irish Novelist" The Bookman (April 1901): 12.
  13. News: Untitled brief item. 28 May 1904. The Publisher's Circular.
  14. Crottie, Julia M. "The Nest in Kilcrona", a novel serialized in The Current, from 23 February 1884 to 12 April 1884.
  15. Book: Crottie, Julia M. Neighbors. 1900. T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Square. London. en. 993669777.
  16. Book: Crottie, Julia M. The lost land; a tale of a Cromwellian-Irish town, being the autobiography of Miss Anita Lombard, 1780-1797. 1901. T.F. Unwin. London. en. 19622230.
  17. Book: Crottie, Julia M. Innisdoyle neighbors. 1920. Magnifcat Press. Manchester, N.H.. en. 35810640.

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