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Mrs. Victor Rickard


Born
Dublin, Ireland
Died
January 28, 1963

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Jessie Louisa Rickard, also known as Mrs. Victor Rickard (1876–1963), was an Irish literary novelist. During her lifetime she became a versatile writer who produced over forty novels, some of which found a large reading public. She preferred to be known as Mrs Victor Rickard to avoid association with a young woman called Jessie Rickard, who was brutally murdered in an incident reported in the media as 'The Cornish Tragedy'.

She spent her youth in Mitchelstown, and when only 18 (1894) wrote a series of hunting sketches which appeared in the Cork Examiner. They were so popular that she followed with a hunting story, The Price of a Friend, which was accepted as a series by the Irish Times.[2] She married Robert Dudley Innes Ackland, by whom she
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The House of Courage

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A Reckless Puritan

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Old Sins Have Long Shadows

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Cathy Rossiter

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The Mystery of Vincent Dane

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