Died c.1930 Occupation Writer | Pen name Julia Crottie Nationality Irish | |
Julia Crottie (1853-c.1930) was an Irish novelist who detailed rural life in Ireland, writing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Life
Crottie was born in 1853 in Lismore, Co. Waterford. She was educated by the Presentation Nuns in Waterford before emigrating to America. There she was the editor for Providence Visitor, Rhode Island and released her stories about Ireland which featured satirical portrayals of the people who emigrated from Ireland, returned or never got to emigrate. Her work portrayed some of the less pleasant features of small town rural Ireland. She was compared by the Glasgow Herald to Edgeworth and Carleton. She came back from America to the Isle of Man for a time before returning to the USA.
Criticism
Irish Literature, Justin McCarthy, ed. (Washington: University of America 1904):
[Her] childhood in lifeless atmosphere of an Irish town where she received impressions rendered with sometimes appalling faithfulness in Neighbours and The Lost Land; has lived for some time in America; one of few since Carleton to show fearless realism in her portrayal of Irish character but that does not mean that she does not love her people and deal tenderly with them as well'