Irish Idylls
by Jane Barlow
VICTORIAN BINDING
SECOND EDITION
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Jane Barlow (17 October 1856 – 17 April 1917) was an Irish writer, noted for her novels and poems describing the lives of the Irish peasantry, chiefly about Lisconnel and Ballyhoy, in relation to both landlords and the Irish potato famine. Barlow had great success with the collection of stories Irish idylls (1892). Running into nine editions, it was read in France, Germany, Britain and America. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Dublin and was a contributor to the National Literary Society in Dublin. She was friends with Katharine Tynan and Sarah Purser, who painted her portrait in 1894.
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co., New York
Copyright: 1897