Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Maureen Duffy
Standard Name: Duffy, Maureen
Birth Name: Maureen Patricia Duffy
Pseudonym: D. M. Cayer
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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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writes often of primal bonds, of love and sexual desire, of the disadvantaged and marginalised, of gender identity and gender politics.
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'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...
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.