Women / Persons ~ P09600
Elizabeth Casey
Alternate Names:
- E. Owens Blackburne
- Elizabeth Owens Blackburne
- Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 10 May 1845 - 4 April 1894
Types:
- Author or presenter
- Disabled
- Irish
- Journalist
- Writer, Novel
- Writer, Poetry
- Writer, Short fiction
Note: Has some claim to have produced the first collection of Irishwomen, as an act of "silent patriotism." Pseudonym: E. Owens Blackburne; suffered blindness secondary to an eye ailment in 1856, until an operation restored her sight in 1864.