Grace Kennedy (writer)

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Grace Kennedy (1782–February 28, 1825) was a Scottish writer. She was the fourth daughter of Robert Kennedy of Pinmore, county Ayr, and Robina, daughter of John Vans Agnew, of Barnbarrow, county Galloway. She was born at Pinmore in Ayrshire, but at an early age moved to Edinburgh. She wrote novels of a religious tendency which were very popular in their day. By 1920, they were very little read. She is best known as the author of Father Clement (1823), an anti-Roman Catholic novel, which ran through some dozen editions and was translated into most of the languages of Europe. She was writing Philip Colville, a Covenanter's Story when she died. Her published works consist of:

Decision (1821)
Profession is not Principle (1822)
Jessy Allan, or The Lame Girl (1822)
Father Clement (1823)
Anna Ross (1824)
Andrew Campbell's Visit to his Irish Cousins (1824)
The Word of God and the Word of Man (1824)
Dunallan (second edition, 1825)

A collection of her works in six volumes appeared at Edinburgh in 1827, and a German translation of them, Sämmtliche Werke, in Bielefeld in 1838 and another one in 1842.

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References

Template:The Works of Grace Kennedy (Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1827)
"Kennedy, Grace". The American Cyclopædia. 1879.

Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Kennedy, Grace". Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

Works by or about Grace Kennedy at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 100896627 LCCN: n85198521 ISNI: 0000 0000 8078 321X

Persondata
Name	Kennedy, Grace
Alternative names
Short description	Scottish author
Date of birth	1782
Place of birth	Pinmore, Ayrshire
Date of death	1825
Place of death

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