Part of an original manuscript for an article in the Athanaeum magazine by the Irish novelist Sydney, Lady Morgan.The note at top left reads - 'Lady Morgan's autograph manuscript on the subject of Irish churches - printed in the Athanaeum somewhere about June or July 1836. Not catalogued'. Sydney, Lady Morgan (née Owenson; 1781 – 1859, was an Irish novelist, best known as the author of The Wild Irish Girl. She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She began her career with a precocious volume of poems. She collected Irish tunes, for which she composed the words, thus setting a fashion adopted with signal success by Thomas Moore. Her novel St. Clair (1804), about ill-judged marriage, ill-starred love and impassioned nature worship, in which the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (specifically his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was apparent, at once attracted attention. Another novel, The Novice of St. Dominick (1806), was also praised for its qualities of imagination and description.But the book which made her reputation and brought her name into warm controversy was The Wild Irish Girl (1806), in which she appeared as the ardent champion of her native country, a politician rather than a novelist, extolling the beauty of Irish scenery, the richness of the natural wealth of Ireland, and the noble traditions of its early history. She was known in Catholic and Liberal circles by the name of her heroine Gloria.Size is 200mm x 80mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Rough cut edges and taken from a book.