Fanny Emma Fitzgerald Guinness

Fanny Emma Guinness, nee Fitzgerald (Fitz Gerald) (b. 1831 in London, d. 1898 in Derbyshire, England) was the editor of the missionary periodical “Regions Beyond”.
From 1860 onto her death in 1898 she was the wife of Rev. Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910). They had seven or eight children, of which only four reached adult age, among them the author Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor (1865-1949).

Biographical literature:

• Angela Bourke (ed.), et. al., The Field Day Anthology of Irish writing, Vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions (New York Univ. Press; Cork Univ. Press, 2002 [ISBN: 081479906X, 9780814799062], p. 561)

• Michele Guinness, The Legend (London, Hodder and Stroughton, 1990)