The British Musical Biography

[E] Morgan, Lady, born Sydney Owenson,
was born in Dublin about 1783. Best known
as a novelist, but was distinguished in her
day as a harp player and musician. In 1802
she published a number of Irish airs to
which she had written words, and this was
the forerunner of Moore's better known Irish
melodies. Apart from her novels she wrote
"The tirst Attempt," an opera, Dublin,
1807, and " The Lay of the Irish Harp,"
poems, 1809. In 1812 she inarried Sir
Thomas Charles Morgan, and on April 14,
1859, she died at London.

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