Her fictional portrayals of local conditions, particularly in her novel Hurrish ( 1886), and her consciousness of a distant and uninitiated audience, connect her to the Anglo-Irish literary tradition of William Carleton and Maria Edgeworth. Although a loyalist, Lawless consistently expressed her belief in the need for land reform in Ireland and her work was recognized by Gladstone as essential to his own understanding of the ‘Irish Question’.
Lawless's most renowned novel, Grania ( 1892), uses the Aran Islands as a romantic setting while portraying political conflict during the Land War of the late nineteenth century. The suicides of her father and her two sisters, coupled with her intense disillusionment with the development of a strong Home Rule movement in Ireland, drove her to England, where she lived in seclusion until her death. While her success as a writer brought her public prominence and close connections with the British government, her personal life was one of suffering. Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, and biographer, daughter of the 3rd Baron Cloncurry, born in Co.
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