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Anna Maria (Annie) Keary (3 March 1825 – 3 March 1879) was an English novelist, poet and children's writer. ==Life== Born at the rectory in Bilton, now called Bilton-in-Ainsty, Yorkshire, Annie was the daughter of a former army chaplain, William Keary, who came from County Galway in Ireland, and his wife, Lucy Plumer, of Bilton Hall. She was educated at home. She suffered from poor health and slight deafness. Her father later became incumbent of Sculcoates, near Hull, and simultaneously of Nunnington in North Yorkshire, where the family moved. Then, when Annie was twenty, came another move to Clifton near Bristol, due to her father's declining health. Their relationship was close, and her father gave her much of the information about Ireland that she would later incorporate into her novels. Keary moved in 1848 to keep house for a widowed brother in Staffordshire, who had three children. Six happy years came to an end when her brother remarried. Soon after, she lost two other beloved brothers, and a long engagement was broken off.〔Gillian Avery: Keary, Anna Maria... In: ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: OUP, 2004; online e. May 2006). (Retrieved 14 November 2010. )〕 Annie's sister Eliza (see section below) wrote a memoir of Annie after her death in Eastbourne in 1879.〔''Memoir of A. K. By her sister'' (London: Macmillan, 1882). This was followed in 1883 by a volume of Annie Keary's letters.〕 The memoir relates how Eliza accompanied the frail Annie to Egypt and to Cannes to do research for her books. The sisters also helped to run a home for unemployed servant girls in Pimlico. They were befriended by the novelist Charles Kingsley and his family. The dominant considerations in her life were family ties. She nursed her mother in her last illness in 1869 and later looked after four young cousins whose parents were in India. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annie Keary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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