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Frances Sarah Hoey (1830–1908) (born Frances Sarah Johnston, pseudonym Cashel Hoey) was an Irish novelist, journalist and translator. ==Life== Frances Sarah Johnston was born in Bushy Park, Dublin on 14 February 1830. She was one of eight children. Her parents were Charlotte Jane Shaw and Charles Bolton Johnston. He was secretary and registrar at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium. In 1853 she began to contribute reviews and articles on fine art to ''Freeman's Journal'', ''The Nation'', and other Dublin papers and periodicals. On her sixteenth birthday, 14 February 1846, Frances married Adam Murray Stewart. There were two daughters of the marriage. Her husband died on 6 November 1856. As a widow, she moved to London and met William Makepeace Thackeray. She soon wrote reviews for the ''Morning Post'', to whose editor William Carleton introduced her, and for ''The Spectator''. A frequent visitor to Paris, on Easter Day 1871 she was the only passenger from London to Paris, and returned next day with the news of the Paris Commune.〔 On 6 February 1858 she married John Cashel Hoey (1828–1893). Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and she converted. She was granted a civil list pension in 1892. She became a widow in 1893. She died on 8 July 1908 at Beccles, Suffolk. She was buried in the churchyard of the Benedictine church at Little Malvern, Worcestershire.〔 Charlotte Jane Shaw was George Bernard Shaw's father's sister, "Aunt Shah". In a previously unpublished letter dated 3 February 1935, commenting on a family photo, George Bernard Shaw wrote, "I cannot identify the lady in the riding habit, although her face and bearing are so familiar to me that I think I must have seen her. She may be a sister of Charles: they have the same nose and mouth. I never saw Charles: he was a consumptive invalid and did not appear during my few visits to Mount Jerome. The very uncorseted matron on the right is Mrs. Cashel Hoey (Fanny Hoy) Johnston's eldest daughter, who scandalised the family by going to London and earning her living as author (novelist), journalist, reviewer, and "ghost" to literary men who were too lazy to write their own novels, notably Edmund Yates. She became a professed Roman Catholic on marrying Hoey. By her first husband, Stewart, she had a daughter who married a Dublin solicitor named Fottrell. Fanny was a tremendous talker, with the art of making her acquaintances believe that she was intensely interested in them, and that her importance and influence in literary London were limitless. She belonged to a XIX century type of London literary woman now almost extinct. I sketched it rather ill naturedly in one of my early novels, using Fanny as a model for a few superficial traits. Professionally she had to be a bit of a humbug; but she was a good sort in real life." 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「Frances Sarah Hoey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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