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Author

Phelen, Charlotte Elizabeth (nee Browne, 1790-1846).

Title

Osric: a missionary tale; with The Garden, and other poems. By Charlotte Elizabeth. [pseud. i.e Charlotte Elizabeth Phelan, afterwards Tonna.] Dedicated by permission to Mrs. Hannah More.

Imprint

Dublin : W. Curry, Jun. & Co., [1825?]

Physical description

134,53p. 8. Contemporary full calf.

Call number

WPRP 60.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 515; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 255.

Bio

Born in Norwich, Norfolk, she was the daughter of Revd. Michael Browne. When she was young she married Captain Phelan of the 60th Regiment and spent two years with him in Nova Scotia. They returned to Kilkenny where Phelan had an estate. They separated in 1824 and she moved to Clifton and then to London. She was remarried in 1841 to Lewis Hyppolytus Joseph Tonna. She wrote for particularly Protestant religious societies, and composed songs and poems for the Orange cause.

Notes

Includes Dedication.

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