Marianne Kenley-Munster (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1818) was an Irish Gothic writer, best known for her

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''The Cottage of the Appenines, Or the Castle of Novina. A Romance'' (1806). She is thought to have been born in

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and to have died in

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18th-century births 1818 deaths Irish writers Irish women writers {{Ireland-writer-stub