Mary Anne Sadlier
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Mary Anne Sadlier (December 30, 1820—April 5, 1903) was an Irish author.
Born Mary Anne Madden in Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland, Sadlier published roughly sixty novels and numerous stories. She wrote for Irish immigrants in both the United States and Canada, enouraging them to attend mass and retain the Catholic faith. In so doing, Sadlier also addressed the related themes of anti-Catholicism, the Irish Famine, emigration, and domestic work. Her writings are often found under the name Mrs. J. Sadlier.
Upon the death of her father, Francis, a merchant, Mary Madden emigrated to Montreal in 1844, where she married publisher James Sadlier. Sadlier published most of her work in the family's Catholic magazine, The Tablet. In the early 1860s, the couple moved to New York. She remained there for nine more years before returning to Canada, where she died in 1903. One of her daughters, Anna Theresa Sadlier, became a writer as well.
[edit] Selected works by Sadlier
- The Confederate Chieftains: a Tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 (1860)
- The Babbler; a drama for boys, in one act (1861)
- Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America (1861)
- Elinor Preston: or, Scenes at Home and Abroad (1861)
- The Pope's Niece, and Other Tales (1862)
- The Secret (a drama) (1873)
- The Young Lady's Reader (1882)
- Confessions of an Apostate (1903).
