Draft notes:

• Born Belfast 1892.
• Early years spent in Ardglass.
• Was 7 when her father became rector of Cooneen, near Fivemiletown in Tyrone.
• Apart from a short spell at Sullivan Upper School in Holywood remained in Connen until her marriage.
• Married to Will Foyle in 1916 (who died 30 years later in 1946).
• Died aged 96 in 1988.
• Letter to Pat Orr dated 1966:
  • year of Mona Algeo's death,
  • alludes to "old Conneen days when we were left motherless and depended on one another".
• Became a novelist at age 54 (in 1946, the year her husband's death):
  • fairly prolific, with some stories published in American magazines or broadcast on the radio or television,
  • novels:
    • The Doctor's Lady, 1949
    • Dancing Town
    • Other People's Shoes
  • children's books:
    • Tow Pad Tad (children's book based on nephew Tom Algeo, according to Tom himself)
    • The Little Good People