Lifespan: 1824- 1877
Nationality: Irish
Genres: Romantic Fiction
Types of Work: Novels
Contemporaries:
Style: Domestic and simple; stories mostly set in France; purposed for younger women readers; heroines are strong, independent, and resourceful.
Bio: Julia Kavanagh was born in Tipperary, Ireland on January 7, 1824 to Morgan and Bridget Kavanagh. Early in Julia's life, the family moved to Normandy, France, where she mastered the French language and became familiar with French modes of thought.
Julia began her career as an effort to support herself and her mother after they left her father and returned to London. The first book she published was Three Paths, in 1847, but Madeline, a Tale of Auvergne, published in 1848, was the first book to attract her a notice of the literary world.
Julia died October 28, 1877 in Nice, France
Novels:
The Three Paths (1847)
Madeleine, a Tale of Auvergne (1848)
Woman in France during the 18th Century (1850)
Nathalie (1851)
Women of Christianity (1852)
Daisy Burns (1853)
Rachel Gray (1855)
Adele (1857)
A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies (1858)
French Women of Letters (1862)
English Women of Letters (1862)
Queen Mab (1863)
Beatrice (1865)
Dora (1868)
Silvia (1870)
Bessie (1872)
John Dorrien (1875)