Maureen Duffy

Standard Name: Duffy, Maureen
Birth Name: Maureen Patricia Duffy
Pseudonym: D. M. Cayer
MD is known primarily a novelist, in which capacity much of her work blends elements from history, biography, autobiography, or science fiction. She has also produced plays, poems, and scholarly works. By the early twenty-first century her output was said to total twenty-eight prose works (fiction and non-fiction), poetry collections, and plays.
Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, pp. 4-5.
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MD writes often of primal bonds, of love and sexual desire, of the disadvantaged and marginalised, of gender identity and gender politics.
Black and white, half-length photograph of Maureen Duffy, her head slightly on one side and smiling. She wears a dark pullover with a striped shirt; her grey hair is in a page-boy cut with a fringe.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Margaret Drabble
MD 's novel The Red Queen (not the only work to bear this title) appeared in the same month that another novelist, Maureen Duffy , also published a book about a present-day woman encountering a...
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
JK 's God, An Untitled Story appeared in God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu in 1992. Other contributors included Michèle Roberts , Maureen Duffy , and Bapsi Sidhwa .
Textual Production Doris Lessing
In a sequel, Ben, in the World, 2000, DL shifts her portrayal of the young-adult Ben into a kind of noble savage who embodies, far more clearly than in The Fifth Child, a...

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Texts

Duffy, Maureen. Pictures for an Exhibition. Enitharmon Press, 2016.
Duffy, Maureen. Restitution. Fourth Estate, 1999.
Duffy, Maureen. Rites. Methuen, 1969.
Duffy, Maureen. Scarborough Fear. Macdonald, 1982.
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago, 1983.
Duffy, Maureen. The Erotic World of Faery. Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
Duffy, Maureen. “The Last Priestess”. God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu, Serpent’s Tail, 1992, pp. 127-33.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago, 1989.
Duffy, Maureen. The Orpheus Trail. Arcadia Books, 2009.
Duffy, Maureen. The Paradox Players. Hutchinson, 1967.
Duffy, Maureen. The Passionate Shepherdess. J. Cape, 1977.
Duffy, Maureen. The Venus Touch. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971.
Duffy, Maureen. Wounds. Hutchinson, 1969.