Hull, Eleanor Henrietta (1860–1935)

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Hull, Eleanor Henrietta (1860–1935)

British journalist and literary scholar. Born 1860 in England; died in Wimbledon, 1935; dau. of a family from Co. Down; attended Alexandra College, Dublin; studied under Kuno Meyer and Standish Hayes O'Grady.

Co-founded the Irish Texts Society (1899); writings include The Cuchulain Saga in Irish Literature (1898), Pagan Ireland (1904), Early Christian Ireland (1904), A Textbook of Irish Literature (2 vols., 1906–08), The Poem-Book of the Gael (1912) and A History of Ireland (2 vols., 1931).

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