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Selina Bunbury
1802–1882
A prolific Anglo-Irish writer, she turned a life of travel and observation into novels, short fiction, and travel books that kept 19th-century readers company across nearly a hundred volumes.
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About the author
Born in 1802 at Kilsaran House in County Louth, Selina Bunbury was an Anglo-Irish novelist, short-story writer, and travel writer. Reference works describe her as a remarkably productive author, and her career stretched across decades as she published fiction, religious writing, and books drawn from her journeys.
She came from a large clerical family and was connected, at least distantly, to Frances Burney, a link scholars say may have shaped her literary ambitions. Bunbury wrote steadily through the 1820s and beyond, building a body of work that mixed storytelling with the interests of a keen traveler and observer.
Her books are less widely read now than they were in her own time, but they offer a vivid glimpse of the tastes and reading habits of the 19th century. She died in Cheltenham in 1882.