Mrs. Bartle Teeling

Mrs. Bartle Teeling (, Clarke; pen names, Norman Stuart and Isola; 1851 – November 1906) was a British writer. She published dozens of articles and biographical sketches, as well as several books, a play, and some music.

Early life Theodora M. Louisa Lane Clarke was born in Guernsey, 1851, but passed her childhood in Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, where her father, Rev. Thomas Clarke, was Rector. Her mother, Louisa Lane Clarke, was the author of several scientific, topographical, and historical works on the Channel Islands. When Rev. Clarke died, his widow returned with their only child to Guernsey in 1865,

Career Teeling's mother was a strong Protestant, but after years of anxious thought and deep but solitary research, for Teeling did not have a single Catholic acquaintance, she was received into the Catholic Church. Shortly after Teeling's conversion, while she was still under 21 years of age, she made her first essay in literature, at the request of Father William Lockhart, in The Lamp, of which he was editor. Although she had seven young children to care for, scarcely a month passed that she had not an article in at least one of the many magazines to which she contributed.

Teeling used the pen name "Norman Stuart" for her writing, and the pseudonym "Isola" for composing and publishing music.

Personal life In 1879,

Selected works Roman Violets, and Where They Blossom (Burns & Oates, 1879) The Mission Cross, its Work and its Triumph (Washbourne, 1880) My Zouave (Burns & Oates, 1892) Her Last Stake (Benziger) The Violet Sellers (play) Through Night to Light (serial)

Articles "Victor Hugo in exile", by Theodora Louisa Lane Teeling, The Irish Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 82 (Apr., 1880), pp. 191–199 (Text) "My Recollections of Victor Hugo", by Mrs. Bartle Teeling, Catholic World, Vol. 75 (Apr. 1902), pp. 52–64 (Text)

Songs Music : A Song by Isola (Augener) Old English Carols (Shapcott)