{{short description|Irish novelist and teacher (1915-1972)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Anne Crone | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 16 September 1915 | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1972|10|25|1915|09|16}} | death_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland | occupation = novelist and teacher }}
'''Anne Crone''' (16 September 1915 – 25 October 1972) was an Irish novelist and teacher.<ref name=Clarke>{{cite book|last1=Clarke|first1=Frances|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|chapter=Crone, Anne}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Newmann |first1=Kate |title=Anne Crone |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/printPerson/332 |website=www.newulsterbiography.co.uk |accessdate=17 January 2020}}</ref>
==Biography== Anne Crone was born in Dublin on 16 September 1915. She was the daughter of a Belfast-born civil servant, William Crone, and Mary Jane "Mollie" Crone (née Plunkett) of County Fermanagh. William Crone served as assistant secretary in the Northern Ireland ministry of commerce. She spent some of her early childhood in London, and later attended Methodist College, Belfast, and Somerville College, Oxford. She graduated with a first class BA in French and German in 1936, and a B.Litt. in 1940. She taught for a number of years at Victoria College, Belfast, moving to the Princess Gardens School in 1948 going on to become head of the department of modern languages.<ref name="Clarke" />
Crone's first novel, ''Bridie Steen'', which was first published in America in 1948, focused on themes of sectarian prejudice in rural Ulster. She examined themes of class and sectarian divisions within Ireland in her subsequent books: ''This pleasant lea'' (1951) and ''My heart and I'' (1955). Among fans of her work was Lord Dunsany, who wrote the preface to the 1949 English edition of ''Bridie Steen''.<ref name="Clarke" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=John Wilson |title=The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00fost |url-access=limited |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781139827881 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani00fost/page/n220 200]-201}}</ref>
She suffered severely with asthma throughout her life. She died on 25 October 1972 at her home on the King's Road, Belfast. She is buried Dundonald Cemetery, County Down.<ref name="Clarke" />
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