HELEN SELENA DUFFERIN BIOGRAPHY

DUFFERIN, HELEN SELENA (SHERIDAN), COUNTESS OF (1807-1867). —Eldest dau. of Tom S., grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley S. ( q.v. ), and sister of Mrs. Norton ( q.v. ). She and her two sisters were known as "the three Graces," the third being the Duchess of Somerset. She shared in the family talent, and wrote a good deal of verse, her best known piece being perhaps The Lament of the Irish Emigrant , beginning "I'm sittin' on the stile, Mary." She also wrote Lispings from Low Latitudes, or Extracts from the Journal of the Hon. Impulsia Gushington , Finesse, or a Busy Day at Messina , etc.