Tracy, Honor [Lilbush Wingfield] (1913-1987). English-born novelist who settled in Ireland after the Second World War and wrote satirical fiction and essays. A collection, Mind You, I've Said Nothing (1956) includes broad caricatures of literary Dublin. In The Straight and Narrow Path (1958), The Prospects Are Pleasing (1958), and The Quiet End of Evening (1972), among many other novels, she gives a comical account of Irish rural life.

pseud. of Lilbush Wingfield, 1913–89, British writer, b. Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk. A long-time foreign correspondent, Tracy is best known as a travel writer. Her novels satirize British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with wit and occasionally bitterness. Her best novels are The Straight and Narrow Path (1956), The Quiet End of Evening (1972), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979); her best-known travel book is Winter in Castille (1974).