Novelist and poet, wife of Sir John Thomas Gilbert, born Belfast, Ireland, 1841; died Dublin, Ireland, 1921. She was a contributor to numerous magazines among them the "Irish Monthly"; and was the author of several novels including "A Fair Emigrant," "Banshee Castle," "Hetty Grey," "Cynthia's Bonnet Shop," "Father Tim," and "Fair Noreen"; and of a collection of poems, "Spirit and Dust."