author
Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert
1841–1921
A prolific Irish storyteller of the Victorian era, she wrote novels, poems, and plays that often drew on Irish life, Catholic faith, and the pressures placed on women. Her work reached a wide audience, and early encouragement from Charles Dickens helped launch her literary career.
3 Audiobooks
Hetty Gray; or, Nobody's bairn
by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert
The Late Miss Hollingford
by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert
Terry; Or, She ought to have been a Boy
by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert
About the author
Born in Belfast in 1841, Rosa Mulholland went on to become a well-known Irish novelist, poet, and playwright. She was educated privately, travelled in the west of Ireland, and used those experiences to shape fiction that brought rural Irish settings and social questions vividly to life.
Her early writing was encouraged by Charles Dickens, who published some of her work, and she went on to build a long and productive career. Readers knew her for popular novels and stories that often centered on family life, religion, conscience, and the limited choices available to women.
After marrying the historian Sir John T. Gilbert in 1891, she was also known as Lady Gilbert. She continued writing into the later years of her life and died in Dublin in 1921, leaving behind a substantial body of work that still interests readers of Irish and Victorian literature.