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Elizabeth Hardy|1794|1854| Elizabeth Hardy (born 1794 died 1854), novelist, born in Ireland in 1794, was a zealous protestant. She wrote 'Michael Cassidy, or the Cottage Gardener', 1845; 'Owen Glendower, or the Prince in Wales', 2 vols., 1849; 'The Confessor, a Jesuit Tale of the Times', 1854, and possibly some other works. All were published anonymously. Mrs. Hardy died on 9 May 1854, in the Queen's Bench Prison, where she had been imprisoned 'for about eighteen months for a small debt'.

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