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Catherine Charlotte Maberly (1805 – 7 February 1875) was an Irish writer.
Biography
Born Catherine Charlotte Prittie in November 1805 in Corville, County Tipperary, Ireland, Maberly was the daughter of Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie and Elizabeth Ponsonby. Her brother Henry Prittie became the 3rd Baron Dunalley of Kilboy when their uncle, Henry Sadleir Prittie, died childless. She married William Leader Maberly on 11 November 1830.
Maberly was a novelist who wrote predominantly historical fiction though she also wrote some non fiction. Maberley's 1851 novel The Lady and the Priest is about the life of King Henry II of England, and his relationships with his mistress Rosamund Clifford, and his antagonist, Thomas à Becket.
She is buried in Cowes on the Isle of Wight with her only son, William Anson Robert Maberly.
Bibliography
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The locket ; or, the history of Mr. Singleton
Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale
The lady and the priest. An historical romance
Fashion and Its Votaries
The Present State of Ireland and Its Remedy
Leonora
The art of conversation with remarks on fashion and address
Leontine, or the Court of Louis the fifteenth
The Grand Vizier's daughter. An historical romance of the fifteenth century
Melanthe; Or the Days of the Medici
A day near Turin : an opera in two acts
The Love-Match
References
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- Rowland Hill
- Catherine Maberly
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- List of historical novelists
- Mazurkas (Chopin)
- List of Irish women writers
- William Leader Maberly
- List of women writers (M–Z)
- Cultural depictions of Henry II of England
- The Langoliers (miniseries)
- Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series)