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Her father was Edward Lawless, 3rd [[Baron Cloncurry]] (d. 1896),<ref name= "eb1922" /> thus giving her the [[Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom|title]] of "The Honourable".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/l/Lawless,E/life.htm|title=Emily Lawless|publisher=Princess Grace Irish Library|accessdate=7 September 2010}}</ref> In contrast her brother Edward Lawless was a landowner with strong Unionist opinions, a policy of not employing Roman Catholics in any position in his household, and chairman of the Property Defence Association set up in 1880 to oppose the [[Land League]] and "uphold the rights of property against organised combination to defraud". The prominent Anglo-Irish unionist and later [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]], [[Irish Home Rule movement|Home Rule]] politician [[Horace Plunkett]] was a cousin. Lord Castletown, [[Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown]] was also a cousin. It is believed that she was a lesbian<ref name="Raitt1995">{{cite book|author=Suzanne Raitt|title=Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A9pkAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Onlywomen Press|isbn=978-0-906500-48-4|page=170}}</ref> and that Lady Sarah Spencer, dedicatee of ''A Garden Diary'' (1901) was her lover.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}
She spent part of her childhood with the [[Sir John Kirwan|Kirwans of]] [[Castle Hackett]], [[County Galway]], her mother's family, and drew on West of Ireland themes for many of her works. She occasionally wrote under the pen name "Edith Lytton".<ref name="Kirwan2010">{{
She died at [[Gomshall]], [[Surrey]].<ref name= "eb1922" >{{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Lawless, Emily}}</ref>
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