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Winifred Mary Letts : ウィキペディア英語版 | Winifred Mary Letts Winifred Mabel Letts (1882–1972) was an English-born writer who spent most of her life in Ireland. She was known for her novels, plays and poetry. ==Biography== She was born on 10 February 1882 in Broughton, Salford, in what was then the County of Lancaster, (now Greater Manchester), to an English father (the Revd Ernest Letts) and Irish mother (Isabel Mary Ferrier).〔Cf. her birth certificate in The National Archives, London.〕 She spent many childhood holidays in Knockmaroon, Phoenix Park, Dublin, which was her mother's home.〔''Knockmaroon'' (1933)〕 After her father's death, she and her mother returned to Ireland and lived in a house called Dal Riada in Blackrock, County Dublin.〔1911 Census〕 She was educated first in Bromley in Kent and later at Alexandra College in Dublin. She trained as a masseuse and during World War I worked at army camps in Manchester.〔Nosheen Khan, ''Women's Poetry of the First World War''. 1988〕 In 1926 she married widower William Henry Foster Verschoyle, of Kilberry, County Kildare; they lived in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and in County Kildare. After his death in 1943 she lived for a time with her sisters in Faversham, Kent. She returned to Ireland in 1950 and bought Beech Cottage in Killiney, County Dublin, where she lived until finally moving to Tivoli Nursing Home, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin in the late 1960s. She died in 1972 and is buried in Rathcoole, County Dublin.
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