Owenson

Owenson is a surname of Irish origin. The name is best known through Sydney Owenson (1776–1859), who published under the name Lady Morgan after marriage and became a prominent Irish novelist and travel writer of the early 19th century. Her best-known work, The Wild Irish Girl (1806), helped popularize Irish themes in English-language fiction and contributed to the period’s literary attention to Ireland.

As a family name, Owenson appears in Irish and diaspora records, though it is not widely represented by other figures with the same level of international recognition. The name is primarily encountered in biographical and genealogical contexts related to Ireland and its literary history.