Background
She was the fourth daughter of Robert Kennedy of Pinmore, county Ayr, and Robina, daughter of John Vans Agnew, of Barnbarrow, county Galloway. She was born at Pinmore in Ayrshire, but at an early age moved to Edinburgh.
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Grace Kennedy
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She wrote novels of a religious tendency which were very popular in their day. By 1920, they were very little read. She is best known as the author of Father Clement (1823), an anti-Roman Catholic novel, which ran through some dozen editions and was translated into most of the languages of Europe.
She was writing Philip Colville, a Covenanter"s Story when she died.
Her published works consist of:
Decision (1821)
Profession is not Principle (1822)
Jessy Allan, or The Lame Girl (1822)
Father Clement (1823)
Anna Ross (1824)
The Word of God and the Word of Manitoba (1824)
Dunallan (second edition, 1825).
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February 28, 1825 (aged 43) -
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United Kingdom