Dorothea Herbert

Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829 was a noted Irish diarist and the eldest daughter of Rev. Nicholas Herbert, rector of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland. Her Retrospections, first published in two volumes in 1929-30, contain local accounts of life in the late eighteenth century, but are soon overshadowed by her unrequited passion for John Roe, heir to Rockwell near Knockgrafton, another of her father's parishes.^[1]

In spite of increasing isolation, depression and derangement, she wrote plays, novels and other works, none of which can be accounted for. Her Volume of Poetry, however, has survived and is now published, together with her Journal Notes (a continuation of her Retrospections) as a biography by historian Dr. Frances Finnegan.

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Further reading

• Introspections the Poetry and Private World of Dorothea Herbert, is a new publication by Congrave Press.
• Between literature and history: the diaries and memoirs of Mary Leadbeater and Dorothea Herbert