Title
Iota
Mannington Caffyn, Kathleen
Description
Bibliographic Dictionary Entry
Date
1853-1926
Creator
O'Toole, Tina
Source
Munster Women Writers Project, University College Cork
Publisher
Women in Irish Society Project, University College Cork
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Coverage
Munster, 1800-2000
Format
Text
Relation
Language
en
Type
Text
Contributor
O'Toole, Tina
Birth Date
1853
Death Date
1926
Birthplace
Thurles, Co Tipperary
Biographical Text
Born at Waterloo House, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the daughter of William Hunt and Louisa Goring, she lived in Ireland until she was 21. She trained as a nurse at St.Thomas's Hospital and after a short nursing career, married Dr. Mannington Caffyn. The couple moved to Australia because of his health. In 1893 she returned to live in London where she wrote her best-known work A Yellow Aster, an important feminist novel of the period and central to the New Woman genre of the 1890s. Her other novels include Children of Circumstances (1894), A Comedy in Spasms (1895), and The Minx (1899) and she also contributed to many magazines. [Caffyn, Kathleen Mannington, (née Hunt)]
Writing Genre
Novels