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Lady Dunboyne
Known for devotional and family reading from the late Victorian period, this writer published as Lady Dunboyne and is linked with the name Marion Clifford. Her surviving work has the gentle, moral tone typical of religious books written for everyday readers.
1 Audiobook
Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? And Other Christmas Stories
by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Kate Upson Clark, Susan Coolidge, Lady Dunboyne, Edward Everett Hale, F. L. Stealey
About the author
Published under the name Lady Dunboyne, she is associated in library and bookseller records with Marion Clifford, sometimes listed as Lady Dunboyne Butler Marion Clifford. One of the works that remains traceable today is Alfendeane Rectory (1897), issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
The small amount of reliable information now easy to confirm suggests a writer remembered more through surviving editions and catalog records than through a widely documented public career. Her books appear to belong to the world of late 19th-century religious and domestic reading, where short moral tales and edifying fiction were especially popular.
A portrait identified as Marion Clifford, née Morgan, Clifford, Lady Dunboyne is held by the National Portrait Gallery, which helps connect the pen name to a historical figure. Beyond that, the readily verifiable public record is quite limited, so many personal details are best treated with caution.