Quote from Mabel 1863, aged 43:
"If the exploring of foreign lands is not the highest end or the most useful occupation of feminine existence, it is at least more improving, as well as more amusing, than crochet work."

Mabel seems to have been a strong character. Apparently unmarried, she appears to have been well travelled, literate and erudite.

A series of letters to 'The London Times' in September 1880 in support of wronged tenant farmers in Ireland perpetuates the cause dear to Mabel's father's heart. Written by 'M. Sharman-Crawford', they were at first attributed by The London Times to a 'Mr Sharman-Crawford', later corrected in a small note on 22nd September to 'M. Sharman-Crawford, Mr Sharman-Crawford's granddaughter'

The only granddaughters discovered so far, either have no such initial or die in their very early teens, well before this was written. In lieu of some other explanation, I have accredited this work to William Sharman-Crawford's DAUGHTER Mabel, whose apparent character and disposition well match the genre of the piece which follows:

The London Times 15 September 1880:

... In a country where, as a general rule, the owners of the soil make no expenditure on the land, where a yearly tenant builds his house and drains his fields at his own costs, the exercise of legal rights on the landlord's part often contravenes a free man's inherent right to the enjoyment of property created by his own labour. In such circumstances the rights of property, as a term, have no moral force, for though statute law may legalize wrong, wrong remains morally wrong, in despite of act of Parliament. Through climate and conformation, tillage land in Ireland is eminently a manufactured article. Outside of a few central Irish counties the landlord owns in general only the raw material of production .... Every increase in the productive power of the soil in Ireland is due to the tenant's toil. Save in the most exceptional of cases, the Irish landlord's functions in connexion with the land he owns are limited to a receipt of rent, and until 1870 he could legally evict an improving tenant without giving him any compensation for his improvements. In such circumstances, the Irish tenant was practically a serf, dependent on favour for the unmolested enjoyment of a freeman's most elementary right .... Though better off than the Irish tenant of 1869, the Irish farrner of 1880 still lacks reasonable security for the enjoyment of the profits of his industry, since love of home -- a distinguishing characteristic of the Celtic race -- makes him prefer to pay even the most unreasonable demand for increased rent rather than accept the money compensation for his improvements he might by law obtain. His poor cabin, built by himself or his father, is even more dear to him than is a magnificent ancestral home to the rich squire or peer .... But it is with a bitter sense of injury, and a hatred of the law that gives the profits of his industry to another, that he pays or strives to pay the increased rent .... Love of home -- in ordinary circumstances an incentive to virtue, peace, and order -- has sent to die on the scaffold many an unrepentant murderer, and in the district where he lived his name is reverenced as that of a patriot and hero. As in the material, so in the moral world, there are organic laws which cannot be thwarted with impunity.... As sedition is the outcome of the conditions of land tenure in Ireland, the relations of landlord and tenant there become emphatically an Imperial question .... It is time that some efficient remedy be applied to an evil under whose blighting influence tillage land in Ireland diminishes annually in amount, while the flower of the population -- the young, the strong -- flee eagerly from a land where the hardest toil can often earn only a bare subsistence. For the late "distress" of Ireland was merely an inconsiderable aggravation of chronic misery. In this most prosperous year of this 19th century we might ask, as Bishop Berkeley asked in a bygone day, "whether there be on earth any Christian or civilized people so beggarly, wretched, and destitute as the Irish."

Mabel, born in Dublin, was unmarried and although unconfirmed, it appears likely, due to her name appearing on a burial stone there, that Mabel was buried in the family vault at Kilmore