Sydney, Lady Morgan
Novelist
Irish novelist who gained widespread fame as the author of The Wild Irish Girl. It became instantly popular upon its release in 1806, and reached its 4th US edition by 1807.
She began her writing career by writing poetry. She got wider recognition with her 1804 novel St. Clair.
A bust of her head has been included in London's Victoria and Albert Museum and at David d'Angers's personal museum. She published her companion novels France and Italy in 1817 and 1921, respectively.
Her husband was English writer and surgeon Sir Thomas Charles Morgan.
Among her admirers were famed authors and contemporaries Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.