Agnes Romilly White
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Agnes Romilly White | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 August 1872 Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland |
| Died | 11 June 1945 (age 72) Antrim, Ireland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Irish |
Agnes Romilly White (4 August 1872 – 11 June 1945) was an Irish novelist and poet, who wrote two novels in the 1930s, about an Irish village in the 1890s, and the human dramas and comedies therein.[1][2]
White was the born in Dungannon, Tyrone, the daughter of Rev. Robert White and his wife Anna Maria Matthews White.[3] Her father was the rector of St. Elizabeth's Church of Ireland[4] and was based in Dundonald, now a suburb of Belfast, from 1890 to 1912.[1][5] White had at least two sisters and two brothers. One of her brothers was Herbert Martin Oliver White, a lecturer at Queen's University, who was appointed to the Chair of English at Trinity College Dublin over the poet Austin Clarke.[6]
White died in 1945, at the age of 72, in Antrim.[7] Both of her novels were reprinted in the 1980s.[8] Trinity College Dublin holds a collection of her correspondence.[9][10]
Agnes Romilly White is buried in St. Elizabeth's Churchyard in Church Quarter, Dundonald.[11]
