Mulholland, Rosa (1841–1921)
Mulholland, Rosa (1841–1921)
Irish novelist. Name variations: Lady Gilbert; (pseudonym) Ruth Murray. Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1841; died in Dublin, Ireland, in 1921.
Rosa Mulholland was born in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland, in 1841. She received a private education and subsequently made the acquaintance of Charles Dickens, who encouraged her to write and published her early stories in his periodical Household Words. In 1864, Mulholland released her first novel, Dunmara, under the pseudonym Ruth Murray; she went on
to produce novels for the next 50 years, including The Wild Birds of Killeevy (1883), Marcella Grace (1886), and A Fair Emigrant (1889).
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