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Biography
Kathleen O'Meara or Grace Ramsay (1839 – 10 November 1888) was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British catholic magazine.
Life
O'Meara was born in Dublin in 1839 and she emigrated to France when she was a child. her grandfather, Barry Edward O'Meara, had been Napoleon's physician and for this reason her mother had a pension from the French state.
O'Meara wrote novels that were based around Catholicism and she wrote biographies of leading Catholics. Her publishers tried to reduce any pre-disposed discrimination by giving her the less catholic nom-de-plume of Grace Ramsay.
She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British catholic magazine.
O'Meara died in Paris in 1888.
Works include
- Frederick Ozanam, Professor at the Sorbonne, his Life and Works, 1876
- The Old House in Picardy, 1887
- Narka, a Story of Russian Life, 1888
- The Venerable John Baptiste Vianney, Curé d'Ars, 1891