Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene Explained

Lady Louisa Lilias (Lelias) Plunket Greene (7 November 1833 – 30 March 1891) was an Irish author of children's stories writing under the names: Louisa Lilias Greene, Louisa Lilias Plunket, Baroness Greene, R. J. Greene, Louisa Lelias Greene.^[1]

Biography

The Hon. Louisa Lelias Plunket was born on 7 November 1833, the daughter of John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newton (1793-1871) and Charlotte Bushe, daughter of the Right Hon. Charles Kendal Bushe, Lord Chief of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland. Her siblings were: William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket and Archbishop of Dublin; Charles Bushe Plunket (1830-1880); David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore; Hon. Arthur Cecil Crampton Plunket (1845-1884); Patrick Henry Coghill Plunket (b. 1845); Anna Plunket (d. 1884); Katherine Frances Coghill (d. 1881); Hon. Charlotte Plunket (d. 1878); Emily Mary Plunket; Selina of Plunket; Josephine Alice Plunket; Isabella Katherine Plunket.^[2]

On 27 July 1852, she married Richard Jonas Greene, son of the Right Hon. Richard Wilson Greene, Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), and Elizabeth Wilson. Their children were:

1. Charlotte Selina Franks (1853-1883);
2. The Right Hon. Sir William Conyngham Greene (1854-1934);
3. Elizabeth Alice Greene;
4. Charles Kendal Greene;
5. Prof. Harry Plunket Greene (1865-1936); and
6. Geoffrey Philip Greene (1868-1930).^[3]

Louisa Lelias Plunket Greene died on 30 March 1891 in Dublin, Ireland.^[4]

Works

• Across the Garden Wall
• Alda's Leap And Other Stories
• Bound by a spell, or the Hunted Witch of the Forest (1885)
• The Broken Promise, And Other Tales (1870)
• The Brother and Sister, or What Can It Matter?
• Cushions and Corners, or Holidays At Old Orchard
• Filling Up The Chinks
• The Golden Wrens, A tale (1898)
• The grey house on the hill (1870)
• Harry Galbraith, or The Pierced Eggs (1887)
• The Lost Opal Ring (1905)
• The Lost Telegram (1908)
• Nettle Coats, or The Silent Princess^[5]
• On Angels' Wings, or the Story of a Little Violet of Edelsheim (1885)
• Prince Croesus in Search of a Wife
• The School-boy Baronet
• A Winter and Summer at Burton Hall, A Children's Tale (1861)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ledbetter. Gordon T.. Greene, Harry Plunket. The Dictionary of Irish Biography. 13 January 2018.
2. Web site: Lord Chancellor of Ireland. libraryireland. 13 January 2018.
3. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976
4. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003
5. Book: Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. Newey. K.. 2005. Springer. 211. 9780230554900. 13 January 2018.