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Lady Dunboyne
1842–1919
A prolific Victorian novelist and storyteller, this Irish peeress wrote popular fiction with a warm, accessible style and published widely under the name Lady Dunboyne.
1 Audiobook
Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? And Other Christmas Stories
by Susan Coolidge, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Kate Upson Clark, Lady Dunboyne, Edward Everett Hale, F. L. Stealey
About the author
Marion Clifford-Butler, Lady Dunboyne, was a British-Irish writer born in 1842 and remembered as a remarkably productive author of Victorian fiction. Reference sources identify her as the daughter of Colonel Henry Morgan Clifford, and she later became Lady Dunboyne through her marriage to James FitzWalter Clifford-Butler, Baron Dunboyne.
She published under several forms of her name, including Marion Clifford Butler and Lady Dunboyne. Catalog and author records connect her with novels and stories such as Alfendeane Rectory, Heather and Roses, and A Sunbeam's Influence, and modern library listings show that a substantial number of her works have remained accessible through public-domain projects.
A portrait record at the National Portrait Gallery confirms that she was known in her own time not only as a titled figure but also specifically as a writer. I found evidence that a portrait exists, but I could not confirm a directly usable image file for it, so no profile image is included here.