Kathleen Brown

Last name Brown
First names Fanny Kathleen Rudkin
Known as Kathleen
Married name Foyle
Gender Female
Born 1892
Died 1988
Father Walter Brown
Mother Alice Smith
Siblings Alice Brown, Douglas Brown, Nonie Brown, Elsie Brown, Mona Brown
Partners Billy Foyle (1916)
Realm MO
Relationship To
  

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",
    • her mother, Alice Smith, died when Kathleen, the eldest child, was about 17.
  • Became a novelist at age 54 (in 1946, the year of 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