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Kathleen O'Meara (writer)

Kathleen O'Meara
Born 1839
Dublin
Died 10 November 1888
Paris
Pen name Grace Ramsay
Nationality Irish-French

Kathleen O'Meara or Grace Ramsay (1839 – 10 November 1888) was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British catholic magazine.

O'Meara was born in Dublin in 1839 and she emigrated to France when she was a child. her grandfather, Barry Edward O'Meara, had been Napoleon's physician and for this reason her mother had a pension from the French state.

O'Meara wrote novels that were based around Catholicism and she wrote biographies of leading Catholics. Her publishers tried to reduce any pre-disposed discrimination by giving her the less catholic nom-de-plume of Grace Ramsay.

She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British catholic magazine.

O'Meara died in Paris in 1888.



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