Barbara Hemphill (died 1858) was an Irish writer of novels.

Life

Hemphill was the youngest child of the absentee clergyman, Patrick Hare, who was nominally responsible for the settlement of

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.Brigitte Anton, ‘Hemphill, Barbara (d. 1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> Hemphill initially published her novels without identifying herself after being encouraged by the antiquary

Thomas Crofton Croker Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 – 8 August 1854) was an Irish antiquary, best known for his ''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland'' (1825–1828), and who also showed considerable interest in Irish song and music ...

. She married John Hemphill in 1807 and they had five children. The youngest of their children was the first Baron Hemphill.J. G. S. Macneill, ‘Hemphill, Charles Hare, first Baron Hemphill (1822–1908)’, rev. Terence A. M. Dooley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> Her 1846 novel ''Lionel Deerhurst'', was edited by the Countess Marguerite Blessington. Hemphill is credited with three novels which she eventually published under her own name. Although it is suspected that there may be other unattributed works. Hemphill died on 5 May 1858 at 6 Lower Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin.

Works

*''Lionel Deerhurst'', or, ''Fashionable Life under the Regency'', 1846 *''The Priest's Niece'', or, ''The Heirship of Barnulph'', 1855 *''Freida the Jongleur'', 1857

References

1858 deaths Irish women novelists Writers from Dublin (city) {{Ireland-writer-stub