The New International Encyclopædia/Barlow, Jane

BARLOW, Jane (1860—). An Irish novelist, daughter of Rev. J. W. Barlow, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. She was born at Clontarf, near Dublin, October 17, 1860. She has described, with rare sympathy and humor, Irish village life, employing sometimes verse, but usually prose. Bog-land studies, verse (1892), has been followed by Irish Idylls (1892); Kerrigan's Quality (1893); The End of Elfintown (1894); The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (1894); Maureen's Fairing (1895); Strangers at Lisconnel (1895); Mrs. Martin's Company (1896); Creel of Irish Stories (1897); From the East unto the West (1898); From the Land of the Shamrock (1900); and Ghostbereft and other Stories (1902).