Elizabeth H. Walshe
Miss Elizabeth Hely Walshe was born in Limerick in 1835. She was a protestant evangelical writer who spent part of her life in Canada although it is not clear when she emigrated. Her father was a clergyman and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Miss Elizabeth Hely Walshe was born in Limerick in 1835. She was a protestant evangelical writer who spent part of her life in Canada although it is not clear when she emigrated. Her father was a clergyman and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She was greatly influenced by the evangelist Reverend H. Grattan Guinness, who visited Canada in 1861. Elizabeth had returned to Ireland by 1865. She was a Sunday-school teacher, an accomplished musician and artist and was very interested in the education of the poor.
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