Florence Mary Wilson (writer)
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| birth_name = Florence Mary Addy
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| birth_place = County Antrim, Ireland
| death_date = 1946
| death_place = County Down, Ireland
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = Irish
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Florence Mary Wilson ({{circa|1870}}{{snd}}1946) was a poet who wrote the ballad The Man from God Knows Where.
Life
Born in Lisburn, County Antrim to Robert Addy a mill manager, she married solicitor Fred Wilson in 1898 and lived in Bangor, County Down with whom she had six children. Wilson was a regular contributor to the Irish Homestead, Northern Whig, and other papers. She was a friend of Alice Milligan and Alice Stopford Green. Wilson wrote the ballad, The Man from God Knows Where in 1918 about Thomas Russell. She wrote a volume of poetry The Coming of the Earls which was republished frequently and was popular in America.{{cite web |title=[Mrs] Florence Mary Wilson |url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/w/Wilson_FM/life.htm |website=www.ricorso.net}}{{cite web |last1=Down |first1=K-Point Internet Solutions - Warrenpoint, Newry, County |title=The Dictionary of Ulster Biography |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1713 |website=www.newulsterbiography.co.uk}}{{cite web |title=Florence Mary Wilson |url=https://jenjen999.wordpress.com/florence-mary-wilson/ |website=My Families |date=9 July 2010}}{{cite web |title=Linen Hall Library celebrates its 225th anniversary |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/linen-hall-library-celebrates-its-225th-anniversary-1.1391981 |website=The Irish Times}}{{cite book|author=Guy Beiner|title=Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBZVU9TPWc4C&pg=PA132|date=1 February 2007|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-21823-2|pages=132–}}{{cite web |title=Strangford Lough - Literary Strangford |url=http://www.visitstrangfordlough.co.uk/Suggested-Itineraries/Literary-Strangford |website=www.visitstrangfordlough.co.uk}}{{cite web |title=Irish Genealogy |url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1898/10404/5788868.pdf |website=civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie |language=en}}
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Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:19th-century Irish poets
Category:20th-century Irish poets
Category:19th-century Irish women writers