Meinhold (1797–1851), Sidonia the sorceress (1849)) and French (Lamartine, Pictures of the first French revolution (1850) and The wanderer and his home (1851), and Dumas père, The glacier land (1852)). Her education is unknown but she became polyglot, publishing in her twenties translations from the German (J. Jane may have been domiciled with her father's military or clerical brothers, which (in reaction) could have assisted her adult enthusiasm for Young Ireland nationalism, and Roman catholicism (in which she would rebaptise her sons, though not herself). She has also been credited with a third name, ‘Agnes’, which she never used it may have originated with her son William.Ĭharles Elgee died in Bangalore, south India, in 1824. in 1821 fourth and last of the children, Jane was probably named Frances after the third child – who died at three months – and translated it in homage to Italy, also present in her poetic pseudonym (and she claimed kinship to Dante). Elgee, a solicitor, lived at 6 Leeson St. Jane would contribute introductory material to a new edition (1892) of Maturin's Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the wanderer (1820). 1851), daughter of Thomas Kingsbury, commissioner of bankruptcy, and sister of Henrietta, wife of the Rev. (1821?–1896), poet, nationalist, and feminist, was probably born 27 December 1821 in Dublin, to Charles Elgee (1783–1824), son of Archdeacon John Elgee of Wexford, and his wife Sarah (d.
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