Rosamond Grant Langbridge (1880 – 2 July 1964) was an Irish

Irish people

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 novelist, playwright and poet.

Life

She was born at Glenalla, County Donegal

County Donegal

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, Ireland

Ireland

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, the daughter of Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a writer, poet (The Scales of Heaven) and playwright (The Only Way). She was brought up and educated in Limerick

Limerick

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, where her father was
Rector of St. John's, until he resigned due to ill-health in 1921.

She married the writer J. S. Fletcher

J. S. Fletcher

Joseph Smith Fletcher was a British journalist and writer. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age"....

, with whom she had one child. She contributed to newspapers such as The Manchester Guardian and the Saturday Westminster, amongst others. She died at Mersea, in Essex.

Select bibliography

Among her novels are:

• The Flame and the Flood (1903)
• The Third Experiment (1904)
• Ambush of Young Days (1906)
• The Stars Beyond (1907)
• Imperial Richenda (1908)
• The Single Eye (1924)

Short stories:

• The Green Banks of Shannon (1929)

Plays:

• The Spell

Poetry:

• The White Moth and Other Poems (1932)

Non-fiction:

• Charlotte Brontë, a psychological study (1929)