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E. Owens Blackburne c. 1845-1894 Born Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey in Slane, County Meath. She went blind as a child and was cured by Sir William Wilde. She became a journalist and went to London. She wrote over 20 novels including A Woman Scorned, The Way Women Love, The Glen of Silver Birches and The Heart of Erin: an Irish Story of To-day. She also wrote some poetry and Illustrious Irishwomen – Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irish Women from the Earliest Ages to the Present Century. She is buried in an unmarked and unknown grave in Dublin.
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Further information
is to be found in "The End - An Illustrated Guide to the
Graves of Irish Writers". Click