- Person
- 14 Feb 1830 - 9 Jul 1908
Frances Sarah Johnston, eldest child of Charles Bolton Johnston (1802-1872) and Charlotte Jane Shaw (1809-1890), was born 14 Feb 1830. She was the eldest of nine children. On 14 Feb 1846 she married Adam Murray Stewart (d. 1855). They had two daughters. In 1853 she started writing reviews and articles for the Freeman's Journal, the Nation, and other Dublin papers and periodicals. Adam Murray Stewart died on 6 Nov 1855, so Frances moved with her two daughters to London. There she started writing for the Morning Post, and the Spectator. In 1865, she began writing a story, 'Buried in the Deep' for the Chambers' Journal, where she continued to contribute articles until 1894. She wrote a total of eleven novels, five of which were published under the name of Edmund Yates. Frances remarried on 6 Feb 1858 to John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1828-1892), a writer and journalist. Her husband John died on 7 January 1892. Frances Cashel Hoey died on 9 July 1908, and was buried in the churchyard of the Benedictine church at Little Malvern, Worcestershire.