Agnes Castle

Agnes Castle (c. 1860–1922) was a Victorian era Irish author who worked with both her sisters and husband.[1][2][3] The stories that she co-wrote were the basis of several plays and films.

Agnes Egerton Castle
BornAgnes Mary Frances Sweetman
c1860
County Dublin
Died1922
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish, Irish

Life

She was born Agnes Mary Frances Sweetman in County Dublin to Margaret Powell and Michael James Sweetman.[4] Her father died when she was a small child. The remaining family moved to Brussels in 1873 and she spent her summers in Switzerland. Her uncle was the novelist William Sweetman, while her sisters, Elinor Sweetman and M. E. Francis, were also writers.[5] With her sisters she began two family magazines: the "Ivy Home Magazine" and "Ivy Home Library".[1][6][7]

Agnes married Egerton Castle in 1883 and co-authored many novels with her husband.[8][9] She also wrote plays for children, as well as stories for magazines such as Temple Bar, Cornhill Magazine, and Macmillan.[7] She has largely been ignored as a writer in favour of her husband. [10] Her daughter was Marie Louise Egerton Castle, also a writer, who became Countess de Meeûs, of Brussels when she married in 1922.[11]

Selected works
  • Love Gilds the Scene, and Women Guide the Plot. B. Tauchnitz. 1912.
  • Minuet and Foxtrot. Hutchinson. 1900.
  • The Third Year in the Little House. Hutchinson. 1917.
  • My Merry Rockhurst: Some Episodes in the Life of Viscount Rockhurst, a Friend of the King at One Time Constable of His Majesty's Tower. Tauchnitz. 1908.
  • My Little Lady Anne. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1896.
  • Nan. B. Wahlström. 1918.
  • The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico. Macmillan. 1907.
  • The Bath of Comedy (Macmillan 1901)
  • If Youth But Knew (Smith Elder 1906)
  • Flower o' the Orange and Other Stories (Methuen 1908)
  • The Star Dreamer (Constable 1903)
  • The Composer (1911)
  • Incomparable Bellairs (1903)
  • Rose of the World (1905)
  • The Heart of Lady Anne (1905)
  • Flower o' the Orange and Other Tales of Bygone Days (1908)
  • Panther's Cub (1911)
  • The Golden Barrier (1913)
  • Forlorn Adventures (1915)
  • Minniglen (1918)
  • Our Sentimental Garden illustrated by Charles Robinson (1914, USA; 1915, London)
  • A Little House in War Time (1916)
  • Wolf-Lure (1917)
  • New Wine (1919)
  • John Seneschal's Margaret (1920)
  • Pamela Pounce; a tale of tempestuous petticoats (1921)
  • Diamonds Cut Paste (1922)
  • Wroth
  • The Wind's Will (1916)
  • "The Heart of Lord Mandeville", Vol 19, 1903-04 [included in Incomparabale Bellairs, 1903]
  • "To the Tune of Little Red Heels", Windsor Magazine, Vol 19, 1903-04 [included in Incomparabale Bellairs, 1903]
  • Vengeance Is Mine; Enchanted Casements, Hutchinson 1923

Filmography

Agnes co-wrote the books these films were based on.

References
  1. "Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press". dib.cambridge.org.
  2. Walter E. Houghton; Jean Harris Slingerland (1989). The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. pp. 142–. ISBN 978-0-8020-2688-0.
  3. "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Agnes Castle". www.victorianresearch.org.
  4. "Irish Genealogy". churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
  5. Townend, Peter (ed.). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 18th edition. 3 volumes. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd.
  6. James H. Murphy (1997). Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873–1922. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-0-313-30188-9.
  7. "[Mrs] Agnes Egerton Castle". www.ricorso.net.
  8. Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (1997). Castle, Egerton - Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001. ISBN 9780198117605.
  9. Christopher Riches; Michael Cox (29 January 2015). A Dictionary of Writers and their Works. OUP Oxford. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-19-251850-7.
  10. Colman, A. (1994). "Too Many Treasures Remain Veiled". The Irish Review (1986-) (15): 131–133. JSTOR 29735744.
  11. "All About People: Tittle Tattle". Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942). 14 March 1929. p. 26.
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