Julia Kavanagh

Julia Kavanagh ( born January 7, 1824 in Thurles in Tipperary, † October 28, 1877 in Nice ) was a British writer.

Julia Kavanagh ( pron. käwwänah ), daughter of the linguist Morgan Kavanagh, was educated in Paris, returned in 1844 returned to London and founded by the narrative Madeleine (1848, latest Ed 1873; German, Hamburg 1852) her literary reputation.

Grace of presentation, knowledge of human nature and the power of narrative recorded from these like many of her following novels, which were first Natalie ( 1851) and Daisy Burns ( 1853) shall be given. After a long journey through France and Italy, she wrote a series of novels and short stories, of which only

• Adèle (1858 ),
• Queen Mab (1863 )
• Sybil's second love (1867 )
• Sylvia (1870 ) and
• John Dorrien (1874 ) include; they were usually also translated into German.

In addition, Kavanagh published a Travel Diary: A summer and winter in the two Sicilies (1858, 2 vols ), and various cultural and historical works, such as: Women in France falling on the eighteenth century (1850, 2 Bde.1864 ), descriptions of female celebrities from France the 18th century, and the similar images of the woman's life: the women of christianity (1852 ) French women of letters (1861, 2 vols ) and English women of letters (1862, 2 vols ).