![]() These were immensely popular and republished in book form as Ladies on Horseback, followed a few years later by another book entitled Riding for Ladies (1887). In 1881 she published a series of articles in the English magazine Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News offering advice on riding technique and etiquette for women. It was not until her late thirties however that she achieved any recognition for her writing, and that was for a very different kind of work. It appears to have been an entirely predictable mid-Victorian romance novel, and was followed in later years by a book of poetry, also of a generally sentimental variety. Immediately before her marriage at the age of 26 to the composer William Power O’Donoghue (who was from a wealthy Cork business family) she published her first novel, entitled The Knave of Clubs. Her youthful interests focused on horse-riding and writing, two skills which would she would soon combine to form the basis of her career. ![]() She grew up there and in Dublin, part of the elite world of Castle social events in the city and the hunting, shooting and fishing life of the countryside. Galway, and Edward Carson was her cousin. Her family’s primary estate was Castle Ellen in Co. Born Ann Stewart Lyster Lambert, but always known as Nannie, she was the daughter of a minor (but wealthy) sprig of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Nannie Power O’Donoghue was one of the first real doyennes of Irish journalism, and over a life so long that it stretched from the Famine to World War Two she wrote books, articles, opinion columns and worked as an editor. ![]() Follow Irish Media History on Categories Categories Tags 2RN 1916 Rising Alfred Harmsworth Annie Colles Answers Araby Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Griffith Ballymaclinton books Capsuloids Catholic Truth Society civil service entrance exam Darby Durkan detective fiction Dublin Figaro electric belt Electrolysis emigration Ernest Manico Findlater & Co Freeman's Journal George Moore George Newnes Harlene Hair Drill Hartnell & Co Henry Crawford Hartnell Ireland's Own Irish crown jewels Irish Emerald Irish Figaro Irish Independent Irish Life Irish Packet Irish Society JJ Walsh John H Parker Ltd Julia Curran Kevin J Kenny Ltd Kitty the Hare Lady of the House Leopold Bloom literacy Maison Prost Mary Costello Mary EL Butler Matthias McDonnell Bodkin Maud Gonne McClinton's Soap McConnells Ltd Mick McQuaid Mrs Pomeroy Nannie Power O'Donoghue Our Boys pamphlets Patrick Ivers-Rigney penny dreadful quack medicine Ramsay Colles Richard J Mecredy Richard Pigott Saxon's Everybody's Series Shamrock Shan Van Vocht Sherlock Holmes social purity Social Review St Patrick's Day Traffic in Souls Veritas WB Yeats white slavery William Francis Lynam Wilson Wireless Exhibition Archives Archives Blog Roll
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