Letitia McClintock

Writer, folklorist

Letitia McClintock (12 February 1835 – 1917) was an Irish writer and folklorist. Born in County Donegal, she collected folk stories from the area in which she lived. He work was included in a number of collections, including in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats.

## Life

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McClintock was born to Robert McClintock and Margaret Macan in County Donegal on 12 February 1835. She lived with her family for her whole life. She worked as a writer and was a collector of folk stories from the areas around Dunmore and Kilrea where she grew up. She contributed to the Dublin University Magazine in 1878. She also wrote novels which tended to have an anti-Land League tone. W. B. Yeats had great appreciation for the work she had done on folk stories and included several in his book Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry published in 1888. She was staying with her sister Alice Smyth in Ardmore, Derry in 1901 and with her sister Isabel Barton in Croaghross, Clondavaddog in 1911. McClintock died in 1917.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

## Bibliography

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* Seven Irish Tales (1857)
* A Boycotted Household (1881).
* Alice's Pupil (1883)
* Sir Spangle and The Dingy Hen
* The Cottagers Of Glencarran (1869)
* The March of Loyalty (1884)

## References

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1. ^ "Award-winning travel writer, historian and author based in Ireland". Turtle Bunbury. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
2. ^ "Letitia McClintock". Ricorso. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
3. ^ "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Letitia McClintock". Victoria Research Web. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
4. ^ "Alice's Pupil, by Letitia McClintock (Nisbet and Co.), is a » 15 Dec 1883 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
5. ^ McCourt, J. (2015). Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland. OUP Oxford. p. 253\. ISBN 978-0-19-104590-5. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
6. ^ Ventura, V. (2017). Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm. Red Wheel Weiser. p. 114\. ISBN 978-1-63341-044-2. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
7. ^ Carrassi, V.; Wren, K. (2012). The Irish Fairy Tale: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens. G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. John Cabot University Press. p. 50\. ISBN 978-1-61149-380-1. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
8. ^ O'Brien, James H. (1983). "Reviewed work: W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore, Mary Helen Thuente". The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 9 (2): 100–102. doi:10.2307/25512581. JSTOR 25512581.
9. ^ "1901 Census Dunmore, parish of Killea, Co Donegal". Donegal Genealogy Resources. 11 November 1908. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
10. ^ McClintock. "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". www.census.nationalarchives.ie.