Charlotte Elizabeth McManus facts for kids

Charlotte Elizabeth McManus (1850–1941) was an Irish nationalist, historian and novelist.

Life and career

Born in Castlebar, County Mayo in 1850 to James and Charlotte McManus, McManus was educated at home and in Torquay. She was known as Lil and Lottie, and published as L. McManus. Dermot MacManus was a nephew.

McManus became ardent nationalist and worked as a Gaelic League worker in Kiltimagh, County Mayo. Due to her work it is believed up to 7000 people attended a nationalist meeting in the area in 1909. She was on the anti-Treaty side of the Civil War in Ireland. She wrote for Penny Pamphlets, published in the Educational Company of Ireland series. She also contributed chapters to Seumas MacManus book The Story of the Irish Race (1921). In 1954 her novel Nuala was translated into Irish by Gearoid Mac Spealáin.

She died in Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Ireland on 5 October 1944.