Cecilia Caddell

Caddell was born in Harbourstown, the daughter of Richard O'Ferrall Caddell and Paulina Southwell Caddell.{{Cite web |last=Sturgeon |first=Sinéad |title=Caddell, Cecilia Mary (Maria) |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/caddell-cecilia-mary-maria-a1354 |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography}}{{Cite book |last=Colman |first=Anne Ulry |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnine0000colm/mode/2up?q=Cecilia+Caddell |title=Dictionary of nineteenth-century Irish women poets |date=1996 |publisher=Galway : Kenny's Bookshop |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-906312-44-5 |pages=47-48}} Her mother was the daughter of Thomas Arthur, the second Viscount Southwell of Limerick. Her brother, Robert Caddell, was the High Sheriff of Meath. Her younger sister Paulina became a nun.{{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Bernard |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/jIQwAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Robert%20Caddell%20Meath&pg=PA94&printsec=frontcover |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland |date=1912 |publisher=Harrison & sons |pages=94 |language=en}}

Caddell's works were concentrated in Catholic literature.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34814304/the_freemans_journal/ |work=The Freeman's Journal |via=Newspapers.com |location=Dublin, Ireland |date=18 September 1877 |page=2 |title=Death of Miss Cecilia Mary Caddell |accessdate=August 12, 2019 }}{{Cite book |last=Woodman |first=Thomas M. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Faithful_Fictions/qzGYEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Cecilia%20Caddell&pg=PA24&printsec=frontcover |title=Faithful Fictions: The Catholic Novel in British Literature |date=2022-02-25 |publisher=CUA Press |isbn=978-0-8132-3564-6 |pages=24 |language=en}} She was a contributor to Catholic periodicals such as The Lamp and The Irish Monthly Magazine. The Catholic Union and Times wrote that her works served to "elevate the tone of the reading Catholic public".{{cite news |accessdate=August 12, 2019 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34814497/catholic_union_and_times/ |work=Catholic Union and Times |location=Buffalo, New York |via=Newspapers.com

|date=18 Oct 1877 |page=2 |title=News from Ireland - Meath}} Her most popular work is Blind Agnese, or, Little spouse of the blessed sacrament (1856), which was translated into Italian, French, and republished multiple times. Caddell also wrote historical fiction, such as her three-volume novel Wild Times, a tale of the days of Queen Elizabeth (1865) and Nellie Netterville, or, One of the transplanted (1867). She also published religious biographies and religious hymns.{{Cite web |title=Cecilia M. Caddell |url=https://hymnary.org/person/Caddell_CM1 |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Hymnary.org |language=en}}

Caddell is commonly described as a "lifelong invalid" and suffered from a lifelong chronic illness.{{Cite web |title=Cecilia Mary Caddell |url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/c/Caddell_CM/life.htm |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=www.ricorso.net}} Despite this, Caddell likely travelled abroad, having described visits to Lourdes and Aix in her work.{{Cite journal |last=Caddell |first=Cecilla Mary |date=1874 |title=The Festival of the Banners at Lourdes, in 1872 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20526962 |journal=The Irish Monthly |volume=2 |pages=332–335 |issn=2009-2113}}{{Cite journal |last=Caddell |first=Cecilia |date=1876 |title=Aix and the Falls of Grezy |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20501901 |journal=The Irish Monthly |volume=4 |pages=691–700 |issn=2009-2113}} She died in Harbourstown, County Meath, in 1877, in her sixties, and her funeral was attended by Edward Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston and her older sister Sophia's husband, Royal Navy Admiral Arthur Jerningham.{{cite news |accessdate=August 12, 2019 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34814464/the_freemans_journal/ |work=The Freeman's Journal |via=Newspapers.com |location=Dublin, Ireland |date=19 September 1877 |page=6 |title=Funeral of the Late Mrs.(sic) Cecilia Mary Caddell}}

• {{Cite book |title=The Miner's Daughter |publisher=Burns, Oates & Washbourne |year=n.d. |location=London}}
• A Pearl in Dark Waters. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne. n.d.
• Father de Lisle, A Story of Tyborne. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne. n.d.
• Blanche Leslie. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne. n.d.
• Minister’s Daughter. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne n.d..
• Little Snowdrop. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne. n.d.
• Tales for the Young. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne. n.d.
• {{cite book |title=Flowers and Fruit; Or the Use of Tears |publisher=Duffy and Company |year=1855 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VZBGwAACAAJ |via=}}
• Lost Genevieve. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne. 1856
• {{cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Blind_Agnese_or_the_Little_spouse_of_the/UjloAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Blind Agnese: or, The Little Spouse of the Blessed Sacrament. |location=Dublin |publisher=James Duffy |year=1856 |isbn=}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IewMAAAAIAAJ |title=A history of the missions in Japan and Paraguay |publisher=Burns and Lambert |year=1856 |location=London}}
• "Seymour's Curse, or the Last Mass of Owlesbury" (1857, The Home and Foreign Review)Caddell, Cecilia. "Seymour's Curse; or, the Last Mass of Owlesbury: A Legand of Edward the Sixth's Reign." The Home and foreign review 8 (1857): 106-114.
• {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/homeandhomeless02caddgoog |title=Home and the Homeless: A Novel. |location=London |publisher=T. C. Newby |year=1858 |isbn=}}
• {{cite book |title=Wild Times: A Tale of the Days of Queen Elizabeth |location=London |publisher=John Murray |year=1865}}
• {{cite book |title=Nellie Netterville: or, One of the Transplanted. A Tale. |location=London |publisher=Burns and Oates |year=1867}}Caddell, Cecilia Mary. Nellie Netterville; Or: One of the Transplanted; a Tale. Christian Press Association Publishing Company, 1868.
• {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/LifeOfSoeurMarie |title=Hidden Saints, Life of Soeur Marie, the workwoman of Liege |location=London |publisher=Burns and Oates |year=1869 |isbn=}}
• {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwUCAAAAQAAJ |title=Never Forgotten: or, The Home of the Lost Child. |location=London |publisher=Burns and Oates |year=1871 |isbn=}}
• "The Festival of the Banners at Lourdes, in 1872" (1874, The Irish Monthly)
• "Madame de Saisseval" (1875, The Irish Monthly){{Cite journal |last=Caddell |first=Cecilia |date=1875 |title=Madame de Saisseval. Part I (Continued) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20501631 |journal=The Irish Monthly |volume=3 |pages=357–361 |issn=2009-2113}}
• "Early Days of Madame Barat" (1876, The Irish Monthly){{Cite journal |last=Caddell |first=Cecilia M. |date=1876 |title=Early Days of Madame Barat. Part I |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20501838 |journal=The Irish Monthly |volume=4 |pages=459–468 |issn=2009-2113}}
• "Aix and the Falls of Grezy" (1876, The Irish Monthly)
• "The Dark Pond of Châteaulandrin. A Legend of Brittany" (1876, The Irish Monthly){{Cite journal |last=Caddell |first=Cecilia |date=1876 |title=The Dark Pond of Châteaulandrin. A Legend of Brittany |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20501797 |journal=The Irish Monthly |volume=4 |pages=303–314 |issn=2009-2113}}

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