Ena Fitzgerald MacMillan |
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 (1922) |
| Born | Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher
5 October 1889
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England |
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| Died | 10 January 1962 |
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| Pen name | Ena Fitzgerald |
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| Occupation | writer |
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| Period | Edwardian era |
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| Notable works | Patcola |
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| Spouse |
James Alison Macmillan
( m. 1925) |
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| Relatives | Edward FitzGerald |
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Ena Fitzgerald was the pen name of Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher (after marriage, Georgina Fitzgerald MacMillan; 1889-1962), an Edwardian era English writer of novels, poems, and short stories.[1][2] Her novel, Patcola, received considerable praise as being the first work of a teenager.[3][4]
Biography
Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher was born on 5 October 1889, near Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was the only child of Rev. George Fitzgerald-Galaher, M.A., Litterateur (formerly of Dublin), by his second marriage.[1] She was a descendant of Edward FitzGerald, the translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.[3]
She was educated in the Isle of Wight.[1]
Under the name of "Ena Fitzgerald",[5] she published Patcola : An Indian Romance, written at the age of 17, and published in 1908. This was followed by The Witch Queen of Khem : the Tale of a Wrong made Right (1909), a romance story of Egypt. Both books were well received by very critics in Great Britain, India, Egypt, Australia, and South Africa.[1] The Stars Fought, an Isle of Wight romance, came out in 1912.[6]
Fitzgerald contributed to children's literature with short stories for In the Lion's Mouth and Where Duty Calls or Danger, which were a series of books for children, edited by Alfred Henry Miles.[7] She contributed the short story, "War Scouots at Tripoli" to With Hunter, Trapper and Scout in Camp and Field, another book in the A. H. Miles series.[8]
Her poems were published in Arnell's Poets of the Wight (1922)[1] and C. F. Forshaw's Pearls of Poesy (1911).[9] She also wrote several magazine articles.[1]
Fitzgerald gave lectures, and was the first woman to be a member of the Isle of Wight Aero Club.[10]
In 1911, she was living at Newport,[9], in Shanklin in 1913,[10] and in Wroxall in 1922.[1]
In 1925, she married James Alison Macmillan, an engineer,[11] in Croydon, Surrey.[12]
Georgina Fitzgerald MacMillan died 10 January 1962.[2]
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