Irene Osgood was an American novelist, poet and dramatist. She was born near Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

, in 1875 and spent most of her life in England

England

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. She was a daughter of John De Belot. Among her novels were To a Nun Confessed, Servitude, Behind the Fan, The Garden of Spices, The House of Dolls, A Mother of Dreams, The Indelicate Duellist, An Idol's Passion, The Chant of A Lonely Heart, and other works, including many short stories.
One of her latest works before she died was the drama Une Aventure de Capitane Lebrun, produced in 1913 at the Theatre Molière

Bouffes du Nord

The Bouffes du Nord is a theater at 37 bis, boulevard de la Chapelle in the 10th arrondissement of Paris located near the Gare du Nord. It is registered as a historic monument.-History:...

, Paris.
Osgood was twice married. Her first husband was Charles Piggot Harvey. Her second husband was Robert Sherard

Robert Sherard

Robert Harborough Sherard was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar Wilde, as well as being Wilde's most prolific biographer in the first half of the twentieth century.-Life:...

, an English author and great-grandson of the poet Wordsworth. She divorced him in 1915, the contest being a sensation at the time. In 1911 Sherard had brought a court case against his wife, claiming that he had written a number of the books published under her name. She died at Guilsborough

Guilsborough

Guilsborough is a village and civil parish in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 660 people....

 Hall, her Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

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residence.

Source

Obituary: New York Times, December 13, 1922 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9907E7D81E39E133A25750C1A9649D946395D6CF

Divorce for Irene Osgood, New York Times, January 20, 1915 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B04E5DF1E3FE633A25753C2A9679C946496D6CF

Writer sues wife for mss. and a cat, New York Times, March 23, 1911 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B04E4D61331E233A25750C2A9659C946096D6CF