Jill Brady Hampton

Standard Name: Hampton, Jill Brady

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Family and Intimate relationships May Laffan
Her mother, born Ellen Sarah Fitzgibbon , was probably the niece of Gerald Fitzgibbon , Master of Chancery in Ireland. Ellen's family was originally from County Limerick—but had settled in Dublin before her lifetime—and...
Family and Intimate relationships May Laffan
Walter Hartley is still remembered for his work on the spectra of the chemical elements. He had suffered from severe asthma since before the marriage. There is some debate about his religious beliefs: Jill Brady Hampton
Literary responses May Laffan
This book sold well, and remains ML 's most successful novel.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Some initial reviews were favourable, but most afforded Hogan, M.P. at best lukewarm praise. The Protestant, Unionist Dublin University Magazine declared that though...
Literary responses May Laffan
For such a short piece this has been reviewed extensively; its popularity endured until the end of the nineteenth century. The Spectator said that [n]o work of fiction that we have seen for a long...
Literary responses May Laffan
Helena Kelleher Kahn terms this the most complex and melodramatic
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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of ML 's short stories, praising it—along with Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor and Baubie Clark—as noticeably different to run-of-the-mill Victorian fiction about...
Textual Features May Laffan
Hogan, M.P. opens with a scene in the convent of St Swithin's, by which ML fictionalizes the same criticisms she had articulated in Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies. The young women's education is solely...
Textual Features May Laffan
Jill Brady Hampton argues that Flitters's action is futile and the ending bleak. The reader is left with the two big, strong Irish men surviving to carry on their tradition of drunkenness and irresponsibility and...

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Hampton, Jill Brady. “Ambivalent Realism: May Laffan’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="a‘>Flitters, Tatters, and the Counsellor’</span&gt”;. New Hibernia Review, Vol.
12
, No. 2, pp. 127-41.
Hampton, Jill Brady. Voices Outside the Irish Renaissance. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1999.