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Protestant and in Ireland. According to MacCarthy her father, a gentleman, died leaving her little. She had a religious episode during a vigil with her dead mother's body. She believed that she had been poisoned by an unknown "Jesuit" which damaged
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in 1745. The book's success surprised MacCarthy as she notes in a second edition in the following year. She had included some of her poetry in the first edition and she added more to the second. She also included advice to women readers about how to avoid characteristics including gossip, cruelty,
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novelist and religious writer. She published five works including
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