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Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: a Bibliography z.. f-'4- rv �b� ·E4- t q ?L­ { in this series : 4-, I Sarah Grand II Jessie Fothergill III Edmund Yates IV Indexes to Fiction in Time (1879-91), Murray's Magazine ( 1887-91), and The Quarto (1896-98) v Index to Fiction in The Lady's Realm VI Mary Cholmondeley VII Indexes to Fiction in Tinsley's Magazine I Forthcoming : The Rosa Pr aed Papers in the Oxley Memorial Library (Part 1) The Rosa Praed Papers in the Oxley Memorial Library (Part 2) Beatrice Harraden Index to Fiction in Pall Mall Magazine (1893-1914) Index to Fiction in Belgravia - Q . \�\�}�'l'��\\,�J\1�11\1QJW4V 41982 I8410.65.E - - ---- ·Y ' 1830-1908 CENG . --- ___,-o�-ro-;Q). E 419 8 2 MAHl ...... 13/09/83 FRANCES CASHEL HOEY 1830-1908 A BIBLIOGRAPHY compiled by P.D. Edwards Victorian Fiction Research Guides VIII Department of English University of Queensland I• �....... , t copyright © P. D . Edwards 1982 ISBN 0 86776 083 4 ISSN 015 3921 ! · � · , I Ill 1 '----·---{.){() _) 1933 fY7aA.Nu 2.. .?4-tO ; 6 b ·[4- Published by (9_!{2 Department of English ( University of Queensland St Lucia Australia 4067 VICTORIAN FICTION RESEARCH GUIDES Victorian Fiction Res earch Guides are issued by the Victorian Fiction Group within the Department of English, University of Queensland . The group concentrates on minor or lesser known writers active during the period from about 1860 to about 1910 . Among the writers we are presently working on are Victoria Cross, Mary and Jane Helen Findlater , Annie Hector , Annie Thomas , Morley Roberts , E.L. Voynich , Mary Linskill, Eliza Lynn Linton , Ethel M. Dell, Beatrice Harraden , Mrs Campbell Praed, and Rosa N. Carey . Journals being indexed include Belgra via , The Woman at Home , and Pall Mall Ma gazine . We should be interested to hear from anyone else working on any of these writers or journals , and any information about the location of manuscript and other material would be most welcome . Since there will inevitably be gaps and errors in our published bibliographies, we should also be grateful for information about these. The subscription for the second series of Victorian Fiction Research Guides (V - VIII) is $20 (Australian ). Individual volumes cost $5 . Copies of the first series (I - IV) are available at $16 for the whole series or $5 for individual titles . Orders should be sent to Mrs Barbara Garlick , Division of External Studies , and correspondence on other matters to Professor P.D. Edwards, Department of English, University of Queensland, St Lucia , Australia 4067. The Victorian Fiction Group acknowledges generous financial support from the Australian Research Grants Committee, the University of Queensland Research Committee , and the Department of English, University of Queensland . i CONTENTS Introduction 1 Bibliography I Novels 36 II Other Books 41 III Shorter Fiction 41 IV Contributions to Books 44 V Books Translated or 'Revised' by FCH i Translations 45 ii 'Revisions ' 50 VI Journalism i Journals to Which FCH Contributed Regularly 51 ii Other Contributions to Journals 54 VII Manuscripts 54 VIII Reviews of FCH's Fiction 56 IX Select Biographical and Critical Sources 59 Addenda and Corrigenda 62 iii INTRODUCTION In the 1870s and 1880s Frances Cashel Hoey briefly won a reputation as a novelist a little cleverer and more serious than the general run . During the same period , and for a decade longer , her many translations from the French helped to keep her name before the public. A select few would also have known her as one of the most prolific reviewers in the Spectator. For a short time , in the early 1870s, she even achieved a degree of notoriety - though again within a limited circle - as supposed collaborator on a number of novels purporting to be the unaided work of Edmund Yates. But chiefly her life and literary endeavours are a saga of unremitting struggle me�grely rewarded, either by fame or by fortune . The last twenty years of her life were spent in obscurity and what she felt to be undeserved neglect. Her financial position, precarious even during her most creative period , when she also had her husband 's earnings to supplement her own , seems to have been always more or less desperate during the sixteen years of her widowhood . The only new editions of he� novels were pirated ( or so she believed ) ; those of which she still owned the copyright , or could purchase it with her last ten pounds , were never given the chance of attracting the new generation of readers that she hoped for . Though unmistakably a lady of intelligence, vivacity , and resourcefulness, she toiled all her life in depressing proximity to New Grub Street . 1 One of Mrs Hoey1s proudest memories in old age was of having been introduced , as a young married girl , to the great Daniel O'Connell . 1 The meeting must have taken place in 1846 or early 1847, just before O'Connell 's death . Frances Sarah Johnston, born near Dublin on 15 February 1830 , 2 had married Adam Murray Stewart on her sixteenth birthday , and throughout her life up till then O'Connell ('the Liberator ' ) had been uncrowned king of Ireland . Member s of her own family had been active in the uprising of 1798, and when she began her literary career , in 1853, it was as a contributor to two journals closely identified with Irish nationalism , the Freeman 's Journal and the Na tion. Most of her associates at this time had been members of Young Ireland , which had led an ineffectual rebellion against British rule in 1848 . One of them , William Carleton, gave her introductions to Thackeray and the editor of the Morning Post when she went to London just after the death of her husband in November 1855. Another , Charles Gavan Duffy, had been one of the founders of the Na tion and was its editor when Frances Stewart began wr iting for it ; later , after emigrating to Australia and becoming Premier of Victoria, he was to provide John Cashel Hoey with a job, as secretary to the colony 's Agent-General in London , which appears to have been his main source of income for fifteen of the last twenty years of his life . Cashel Hoey , assistant editor of the Na tion from 1849 to 1855 and editor in 1856 and 1857, became Frances 's second husband on 6 February 1858. According to the DNB , Frances Johnston 's father was secretary and registrar to the Mount Jermone cemetry in Dublin and his daughter , one of eight children , was largely self-educated . Her mother had been a Shaw , half-sister of Bernard Shaw's mother , and if money was as short in the Johnston household as in that of the Shaws , Frances 's parents may have welcomed her early marriage to Adam Murray Stewart 2 (though on the evidence of her novels Frances would never have married but for love - and for imperishable first love ). The fact that she took to journalism within seven years of her marriage , at a time when she had two daughters to look after , may indicate that her circumstances remained difficult and that the illness, if illness it was , that carried Stewart off two years later had already incapacitated him . At any rate her decision , immediately after his death, to pursue a literary career in London was presumably governed by the necessity of earning a living as well as by thirst for literary glory . In the event , however , it seems to have taken her many years to gain even a toehold in the London literary world . The DNB states that in her first two years there , before her second marriage early in 1858, she wrote reviews for the Mo rning Post and the Spectator , but it is unlikely that her connexion with the Spectator began before 1861, when Richard Holt Hutton, a close fr iend of her second husband , became editor . Cashel Hoey moved to London a few months after his marriage , having sold his interest in the Na tion , of which he was by then editor and part-owner . Three years later he was called to the bar of the Middle Temple, but journalism probably remained his chief occupation - as well as his wife 's - for at least the next ten years . In 1865 he became assistant to the editor of the Dubl in Revi ew, W .G. Ward , a position he remained in.till 1879, and both he and Frances became occasional contributors to the Review. Though apparently living in London from the time of their marriage , they do not appear to have acquired any permanent home there until 1868, when they moved to 17 Campden Hill Road, Kensington : this remained their residence until John Cashel Hoey 's death in 1892. 3 Neither Mrs Hoey's rem1n1scences in her letters to Edmund Downey (the richest store of information 3 rr about her life}, nor other people 's observations of her, throw much light on her literary activities and style of life in the 1850s and 1860s. At the time of Oscar Wilde 's death in 1900, she recalled having held the 'dreadful wretch ' in her arms just after he was born ; later , she said , he had been a playmate, though much younger , of her own children : 4 as Wilde was not born till October 1854, however , this would have been possible only if the children remained in Dublin when Frances went to live in London at the beginning of 1856. Presumably it was soon after (or even before ) her second marriage that she , and perhaps her husband, began making the long and frequent visits to France that continued, for her , until only a few years before her death.
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