A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Costello, Louisa Stuart

by John William Cousin

Costello, Louisa Stuart (1799-1877).—Poet and novelist, b. in Ireland, lived chiefly in Paris, where she was a miniature-painter. In 1815 she pub. The Maid of the Cyprus Isle, etc. (poems). She also wrote books of travel, which were very popular, as were her novels, chiefly founded on French history. Another work, pub. in 1835, is Specimens of the Early Poetry of France.