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Norah
1826–1898
An Irish-born writer who built a literary life in Canada and the United States, she wrote poetry, journalism, travel letters, and fiction. Her work often drew on lived experience, including a reporting trip back to Ireland that became one of her best-known books.
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About the author
Born in Belfast on December 26, 1828, Margaret Dixon McDougall later settled in Canada, where she developed a varied writing career. She also used the name Norah Pembroke, and published work ranging from poetry to newspaper correspondence and novels.
During the 1860s and 1870s, she lived in Ontario and wrote for newspapers before returning to Northern Ireland in the early 1880s as a correspondent for the Montreal Witness and the New York Witness. That reporting led to The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland in 1882, and she followed it with the novel Days of a Life in 1883.
Later in life, after her husband's death, she became active in church mission work in Michigan and eventually moved to Washington state. She died in Seattle on October 22, 1899. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the sources checked, so a profile image is not included.