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Lady Morgan refers to Richard Kirwan (1733-1812) in several of her books, but her fullest portrait is found in The Book of the Boudoir (1829). She became acquainted with him during the last years of his life. She had by then published her most famous novel, The Wild Irish Girl (1806), and was the toast of Dublin and London literary society.

She was a vivacious, witty young woman, intelligent, interested in everything, passionate about her country, and determined to make her own way in a man’s world. He was an elderly, brilliant, and very eccentric scientist. Yet these two became friends, and she has left us a vivid and very funny account of their late-blooming friendship.