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Mary Louisa Boyle
1810–1890
A lively memoirist and novelist from the Victorian world, remembered for her warm, observant writing and her close ties to major literary figures of her time. She moved comfortably between aristocratic society, the stage, and the book world, bringing all three into her work.
5 Audiobooks
Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of Earl Cowper, K.G.
by Mary Louisa Boyle
Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Longleat in the county of Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Bath
by Mary Louisa Boyle
Mary Boyle, her book
by Mary Louisa Boyle
Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hinchingbrook
by Mary Louisa Boyle
Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Weston, the seat of the Earl of Bradford
by Mary Louisa Boyle
About the author
Born on November 12, 1810, Mary Louisa Boyle was an English writer and amateur actress. She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Courtenay Boyle, grew up in a well-connected family, and became part of the literary and social circles that included figures such as Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Boyle wrote novels, poems, plays, and later memoir-like works. Her best-known books include The State Prisoner and Mary Boyle: Her Book, the latter drawing on her long life and wide circle of acquaintances. Readers interested in Victorian society often value her for the personal, conversational quality of her recollections.
She died in 1890. Today, she is remembered less as a household name than as a vivid witness to nineteenth-century literary and social life, with a perspective shaped by both creative ambition and firsthand experience of the people around her.