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A. M. Donelan
An Irish novelist of the Victorian era, this little-known writer set her stories amid questions of love, faith, and family duty. Her fiction offers a window into 19th-century Irish life, with titles including Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders and The Value of Fosterstown.
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Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2)
by A. M. Donelan
Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 1 (of 2)
by A. M. Donelan
About the author
Born Anna Maria Donelan in 1840 at Barmeath, she was educated at the Loreto Convent in Dublin and published fiction under the name A. M. Donelan. Records gathered by literary reference sources identify her as an Irish author whose active publishing years fell in the later 19th century.
Her known novels include Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders (1867), The Value of Fosterstown: A Tale of Irish Life (1871), and What 'Tis to Love (1873). These works suggest a writer drawn to emotional conflict, moral questions, and the social and religious pressures shaping everyday life.
Although her books did not become major literary landmarks, they remain part of the long, rich history of Victorian fiction and Irish women's writing. She died in 1909.