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Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
1863–1911
An Irish writer, translator, and journalist who built her career in London, she moved easily between fiction, reportage, and literary adaptation. Her work is remembered for its lively range, from satirical novels to Irish short stories praised in her own time.
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The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore: A Farcical Novel
by Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
About the author
Born in County Roscommon in 1863, Charlotte O'Conor Eccles was an Irish author who spent most of her working life in London. She wrote fiction, worked as a journalist, and also translated and adapted literary works, building a career that crossed several kinds of writing.
Eccles published novels, short stories, and other prose, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Hal Godfrey. Among the books most often associated with her today are The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore and the story collection Aliens of the West, which was well regarded for its writing on Ireland.
She died in London in 1911. Although she is less widely known now than some of her contemporaries, her career shows the breadth of literary work open to an ambitious Irish woman writer at the turn of the twentieth century.