Pen name Grace Ramsay Parents Dennis O'Meara | Nationality Irish-French | |
Died 10 November 1888, Paris, France Books The Bells of the Sanctuar, The Battle of Connemara, Frederic Ozanam Professor, Will You Travel with Me?, Madame Mohl: Her Salon an | ||
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.
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Life
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.