author
Jessie Louisa Moore Rickard
1879–1963
A prolific Irish novelist, she published more than forty books and moved easily between historical fiction, wartime writing, and detective stories. Writing as Mrs Victor Rickard, she reached a wide popular audience while building a career that still feels surprisingly varied today.
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The Story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch
by Jessie Louisa Moore Rickard
About the author
Born in Dublin, Jessie Louisa Rickard was an Irish novelist who is often listed as Jessie Louisa Moore Rickard and who frequently published as Mrs Victor Rickard. She produced more than forty novels and other works during her career, becoming known as a versatile popular writer.
Her writing ranged across several kinds of fiction, including historical novels and mysteries. She also wrote The Story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch, a First World War history connected to the Royal Munster Fusiliers, reflecting a personal link to the war through her husband, officer Victor Rickard.
Rickard was also part of the early world of British crime writing and is associated with the Detection Club, the famous circle of mystery authors. Though less widely remembered now than some of her contemporaries, her career shows how broad and ambitious popular fiction by Irish women could be in the first half of the twentieth century.