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
Family and Intimate relationships Brigid Brophy
BB fell in love with her fellow novelist Maureen Duffy in summer 1967. The early stages of this affair caused emotional pain because Duffy, still living with her former partner. The relationship developed from passion...
politics Brigid Brophy
BB became notorious for her politics in the sixties, an era of iconoclastic activity. She was a vegetarian, a sexual liberationist, an animal rights activist, a feminist, a writers' rights activist, a pro-pornography activist (she...
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
The manuscript of this book had been firmly dismissed, with negative comment on the imagery, diction, and spelling, in 1964 by BB 's then agent.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
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New Authors, the brainchild of Graham Nicoll ...

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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.