Annie Keary

Anna Maria (Annie) Kiri (March 3, 1825 - March 3, 1879) was an English novelist and poet, as well as an innovative children's writer. Annie was born in a parish office in Bilton, now Bilton in Ainstee, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of a former army priest, William Kiri of County Galway in Ireland, and his wife, Lucy Plumer, from Bilton Hall. She was educated at home. She suffered from poor health and poor deafness. Her father later took up the position of Skalcoats near Hall and at the same time as Nannington in North Yorkshire, where the family moved. Then, when Annie was twenty years old, another man arrived in Clifton near Bristol due to the deterioration of her father's health. Their relationship was close, and her father gave her most of the information about Ireland, which she would later include in her novels. Kiri moved in 1848 to maintain a house for his widowed brother in Staffordshire, who had three children. Six happy years came to an end when her brother married again. Soon after, she lost two other beloved brothers, and the long engagement was interrupted. Annie's sister Eliza (see section below) wrote memoirs about Annie after her death in Eastbourne in 1879. This was followed in 1883 by the volume of letters to Annie Kiri. The memoir tells how Eliza accompanied the weak Annie to Egypt and Cannes to conduct an investigation of her books. The sisters also helped build a home for unemployed maids in Pimlico. They became friends with the novelist Charles Kingsley and his family. The dominant considerations in her life were family ties. She looked after her mother during her last illness in 1869, and then looked after four young cousins ​​whose parents were in India.