Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke (pen name, Errol Fitzgerald; 1865 – 6 June 1953), was a prolific Irish romance novelist who published over 40 novels for Mills & Boon between 1927 and 1953.
Born Bridget Josephine Moylan to Jeremiah Moylan and Mary Fitzgerald of Cork, her mother was the matron and her father the headmaster of the Model School.
Her oldest brother Michael became a doctor; her oldest sister a school governess and the youngest sister Vida Mary Augusta Constance Moylan (1871-1962) married William Worby Beaumont, an engineer and inventor.
In 1893 she became Lady Josephine Fitzgerald Clarke when she married Sir Frederick William Alfred Clarke (1857-1927), Accountant and Comptroller-General of HM Customs and Excise.
[5] After her husband died in 1927, Clarke began writing romantic novels under the nom de plume Errol Fitzgerald.