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FAMOUS SONGS
Ireland," a great deal of verse for the " Metro-politan Magazine," edited by Captain Marryat (London, 1830-40) and also autobiographical sketches for the same publication. " Her " Kath-leen Mavourneen" appeared therein. Unfortu-nately no one thought it necessary to preserve any particulars of the life and works of this charming writer. She may possibly have been the Mrs. Crawford who published " Stanzas" about 1830, and the following novels between 1830 and 1857: "Lismore," "The Story of a Nun," "Early Struggles," "The Double Mar-riage," and " The Lady of the Bedchamber."
Frederick Nicholls Crouch led a singularly hard life—one full of vicissitudes and bad luck. When Crouch wrote his greatest song he was travelling for a firm of metal brokers in Cornhill. Afterwards he was appointed musical director at Drury Lane Theatre and brought out many a singer who has long since achieved name and fame. The words, as already stated, were written by Mrs. Crawford, a contemporary of Mrs. Hemans and Sheridan Knowles the Irish dramatist, whose verses were occasionally set by this once eminently fertile composer; among them the "Swiss Song of Meeting" and " Zephyrs of Love" which achieved immediate success through the inimitable singing of Marie 11 161 |
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