We have to announce the death. in Dublin, after a long illness, of Lady Gilbert, better known as Rosa Mulholland, under which, her maiden name, she published her novels and poems.
She had begun writing early. Starting with Cornhill and All the Year Round in their great days, she was exceptionally fortunate. Charles Dickens had given her warm encouragement. She was an art student at South Kensington in those early writing days, and the accident of her having used the pseudonym of "Ruth—Millais" attracted the notice of Sir John Millais, who offered to take her as one of his pupils. However, sha chose literature as a profession, and] she did well.
She was a charming neet. and the ease, the simplicity, the colour, and race of her poetry were in her delicate and ideal stories. She was one of the band of women, like Miss Thackeray, Miss Yonge, Mrs. Wal-ford, and Mrs. Owing, who could write innocent and delicate romance for young girls and women. The art has all but disappeared, There is nothing between the full-blooded novel and the somewhat twaddling iris' books, which remain prudish eyend the most Victorian prudery.
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