Annie French Hector, Is Born in Dublin.

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Annie French Hector, is born in Dublin.

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Annie French Hector, a Dublin-born novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Alexander, is born in 1825. She achieved great popularity in the late 19th century, publishing over 40 novels, many of them widely read in Britain and Ireland. Among her best-known works are The Wooing of O’T (1873), Blind Fate (1891), A Choice of Evils (1895), and Kitty Costello — a semi-autobiographical novel. Her writing often explored themes of domestic life, inheritance, and female agency.

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