{{Infobox writer | name = Ena Fitzgerald MacMillan | image = Ena Fitzgerald (Poets of the Wight,1922).png | alt = B&W portrait photo of a young woman in a pale dress standing by a table which has flowers in a vase. | caption = (1922) | pseudonym = Ena Fitzgerald | birth_name = Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher | birth_date = 5 October 1889 | birth_place = Cowes, Isle of Wight, England | death_date = 10 January 1962 | occupation = {{hlist|journalist|writer}} | period = Edwardian era | genre = {{hlist|novels|poems|short stories}} | notable_works = ''Patcola'' | spouse = {{marriage|James Alison Macmillan|1925}} | relatives = Edward FitzGerald }} '''Ena Fitzgerald''' was the pen name of '''Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher''' (after marriage, '''Georgina Fitzgerald MacMillan'''; 1889–1962), an English journalist and author. She served as the editor of various magazines and was a correspondent for various newspapers. Earlier in life, she wrote novels, poems, and short stories.<ref name="Arnell1922">{{cite book |editor-last1=Arnell |editor-first1=Charles John |title=Poets of the Wight: An Anthology of Vectensian Poets, Namely of Poets Native to Or Otherwise Identified with the Isle of Wight, with Selections from Their Work and Prefactory Introductions and Portraits |date=1922 |publisher=County Press |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en |pages=92–98 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/poetsofwightanth00arne/page/n255 |via=Internet Archive |first1=Russell |last1=Markland |chapter=Ena Fitzgerald }} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="goodreads">{{cite web |title=Ena Fitzgerald |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22672657.Ena_Fitzgerald |website=www.goodreads.com |access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref> Her novel, ''Patcola'', received considerable praise as being the first work of a teenager.<ref name="TheSurrey1914" /><ref name="TheNation1909">{{cite magazine |title=From Messrs. Greening's List |magazine=The Nation |date=9 October 1909 |volume=6 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=massiPluNaYC&pg=PA99 |access-date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Speaker Publishing Company |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="Who1978" />

==Early life and education== Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher was born on 5 October 1889, near Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was the only child of Rev. George Fitzgerald-Galaher, M.A., litterateur (formerly of Dublin), by his second marriage.<ref name="Arnell1922" /> Her mother was from Yorkshire.<ref name="TheJournal1951" /> She was a descendant of Edward FitzGerald, the translator of ''Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam''.<ref name="TheSurrey1914">{{cite news |title=Visit of Miss Ena Fitzgerald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-surrey-advertiser-county-times-visi/137123913/ |access-date=20 December 2023 |work=The Surrey Advertiser, County Times |via=Newspapers.com |date=7 February 1914 |page=3 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

She was educated in the Isle of Wight.<ref name="Arnell1922" />

==Career== Under the name of "Ena Fitzgerald",<ref name="Mossman1981">{{cite book |last1=Mossman |first1=Jennifer |title=New Pseudonyms and Nicknames: Supplement to the Third Edition of Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary : a Guide to Aliases, Appellations ... |date=1981 |publisher=Gale Research Company |isbn=978-0-8103-0548-9 |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VO_DAEE2bUcC&q=Ena+Fitzgerald |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> she published ''Patcola : An Indian Romance'', written at the age of 17, and published in 1908. This was followed by ''The Witch Queen of Khem : the Tale of a Wrong made Right'' (1909), a romance story of Egypt. Both books were well received by very critics in Great Britain, India, Egypt, Australia, and South Africa.<ref name="Arnell1922" /> ''And the Stars Fought'', an Isle of Wight romance, came out in 1912.<ref name="TheLiterary1912">{{cite magazine |title=Publications of the Month |magazine=The Literary World: Choice Readings from the Best New Books, with Critical Revisions |date=1 February 1912 |volume=78 |issue=1924 |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GPI5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62 |access-date=20 December 2023 |publisher=James Clarke & Company |location=London |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

Fitzgerald contributed to children's literature with short stories for ''In the Lion's Mouth'' and ''Where Duty Calls or Danger'', which were a series of books for children, edited by Alfred Henry Miles.<ref name="Horn1915">{{cite book |last1=Horn |first1=Kate |title=Because of Phœbe |date=1915 |publisher=S. Paul |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nH0OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PT17 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> She contributed the short story, "War Scouots at Tripoli" to ''With Hunter, Trapper and Scout in Camp and Field'', another book in the A. H. Miles series.<ref name="TheAuthor1914">{{cite magazine |magazine=The Author |title=With Hunter, Trapper and Scout in Camp and Field |date=1 April 1914 |volume=24 |issue=7 |page=190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RNNNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190 |access-date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights, and Composers |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

Her poems were published in Arnell's ''Poets of the Wight'' (1922)<ref name="Arnell1922" /> and C. F. Forshaw's ''Pearls of Poesy'' (1911).<ref name="Forshaw1911">{{cite book |last1=Forshaw |first1=Charles Frederick |title=Pearls of Poesy: A Biographical Birthday Book of Popular Poets of the Period at the Time of the Coronation of King George and Queen Mary |date=1911 |publisher=Elliot Stock |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3IIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA295 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> She also contributed magazine articles,<ref name="Arnell1922" /> to the ''Chicago Tribune'' (Paris edition), ''Liverpool Post'', ''Yorkshire Evening Post'',<ref name="Who1934" /> ''Dancing Times'',<ref name="Dancing1939">{{cite magazine |title=Folk Dancing in Yorkshire, by Ena Fitzgerald Macmillan |magazine=Dancing Times |date=1939 |page=523 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSkjfec9-WYC&q=%22ena+fitzgerald%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Dancing Times |language=en}}</ref> and others.

In 1926–29, Fitzgerald served as the editor of ''Yorkshire Homes'', published by Gordon Chambers, County Homes Journals, Ltd.<ref name="Who1934">{{cite book |last1=Meredith |first1=Mark |title=Who's who in Literature |date=1934 |publisher=Literary Year Books Press |pages=91, 151, 265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8kWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22ena+fitzgerald%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> She was a correspondent for the ''Drapers' Record and Men's Wear'' and Yorkshire correspondent to the ''Dancing Times''.<ref name="Who1978" /><ref name="TheJournal1951">{{cite book |author1=Institute of Journalists (Great Britain) |title=The Journal |date=1951 |publisher=Institute of Journalists |page=167 |volume=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoYeAQAAMAAJ&q=Yorkshire+corres+Drapers%27+Record |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Beginning in 1946, she was a correspondent for ''New Theatre Magazine''.<ref name="Who1934" /> Fitzgerald served as honorary secretary of the Yorkshire District Institute of Journalists.<ref name="NewspaperWorld1940">{{cite magazine |title=Staff news |magazine=Newspaper World |date=1940 |issue=2191 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rccAQAAMAAJ&q=%22ena+fitzgerald%22+macmillan+obituary |access-date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Newspaper world |language=en}}</ref>

Fitzgerald gave lectures, and was the first woman to be a member of the Isle of Wight Aero Club.<ref name="Hargrove1913">{{cite book |last1=Hargrove |first1=Ethel C. |title=Wanderings in the Isle of Wight |date=1913 |publisher=Melrose |page=303 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8G9KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA303 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

==Personal life== In 1911, she was living at Newport,<ref name="Forshaw1911" /> in Shanklin in 1913,<ref name="Hargrove1913" /> and in Wroxall in 1922.<ref name="Arnell1922" /> Two years later, her address was: Hotel D'Angleterre, 38 Faubourg St Honore, Paris.<ref name="Who1924">{{cite book |last1=Meredith |first1=Mark |title=Who's who in Literature |date=1924 |publisher=Literary Year Books Press |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdEiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA139 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

In 1925, she married the engineer James Alison Macmillan,<ref name="BirminghamGazette1925">{{cite news |title=Wedding, Ena Fitzgerald & James Alison Macmillan. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-gazette-wedding-ena-fitzgera/137124570/ |access-date=20 December 2023 |work=Birmingham Gazette |date=6 November 1925 |page=1 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> F.C.W.A.,<ref name="Who1978">{{cite book |title=Who was who Among English and European Authors, 1931-1949: Based on Entries which First Appeared in The Author's and Writer's Who's who & Reference Guide Originally Compiled by Edward Martell and L.G. Pine and in Who's who Among Living Authors of Older Nations, Originally Compiled by Alberta Lawrence |date=1978 |publisher=Gale Research Company |isbn=978-0-8103-0040-8 |page=921 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9VkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ena+fitzgerald%22 |access-date=20 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> in Croydon, Surrey.<ref name="familysearch">{{cite web |title=Fitzgerald-Galaher |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZR-F4L3 |website=familysearch.org |access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref>

A widow,<ref name="Who1978" /> Georgina Fitzgerald MacMillan died 10 January 1962.<ref name="goodreads" /><ref name="TheJournal1962">{{cite magazine |author1=Institute of Journalists (Great Britain) |title=The president writes |magazine=The Journal |date=1962 |volume=50 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KogeAQAAMAAJ&q=Georgina+Fitzgerald+MacMillan |access-date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Institute of Journalists |language=en}}</ref>

==Selected works== ===Novels=== * ''Patcola: A Tale of a Dead City'' (1908) * ''The Witch Queen of Khem: A Tale of a Wrong Made Right'', (1909) * ''And the Stars Fought: A Romance'' (1912)

===Poems=== * "Questions" * "Marching Song" * "The Exile - Serbia's Sorrow"

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

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