Bridget G. MacCarthy (7 June 1904 – April 1993) was an Irish academic and writer.

She followed that with an MA in 1927 and went on to do a PhD in Cambridge in 1940 on Women's contribution to the development of the English novel: 1621-1818.

MacCarthy worked as a teacher in Edinburgh, in the Craiglockhart Roman Catholic Training College.

She did complete several plays and essays and she was published in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review and The Dublin Magazine.

In her personal life she married but she and her husband only lived together for a short time.