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, July 2002, 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 Edith Somerville
Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy , broadcast by the BBC
Intertextuality and Influence Rose Tremain
RT acknowledges the help of her fellow novelist Maureen Duffy with a poem which passes through the head of one of her characters. It opens: Love was my dancing partner till / darkness fell in...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Methuen 's drama catalogue for 1981-2 had listed seventy-five playwrights, only two of them women (as was pointed out by Mary Remnant , who succeeded to MW as editor after the next three volumes in...

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Texts

Duffy, Maureen. Paper Wings. Pottery Press, 2014.
Duffy, Maureen. Pictures for an Exhibition. Enitharmon Press, 2016.
Duffy, Maureen. Restitution. Fourth Estate, 1998.
Duffy, Maureen. Restitution. Fourth Estate, 1999.
Duffy, Maureen. Rites. Methuen, 1969.
Duffy, Maureen. Scarborough Fear. Macdonald, 1982.
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Hutchinson, 1962.
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. Hutchinson, 1966.
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 Single Eye. Hutchinson, 1964.
Duffy, Maureen. The Venus Touch. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971.
Duffy, Maureen. Wounds. Hutchinson, 1969.