Helena Kelleher Kahn

Standard Name: Kahn, Helena Kelleher

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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...
Literary responses May Laffan
John Ruskin praised the pure and straightforward truth
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 this story, but added: Miss Laffan knows and sees the children of her own country thoroughly, but she has no clear perceptions of the Scotch...
Literary responses May Laffan
Weeds drew little response. In Ireland in Fiction, 1916, Stephen J. Brown denigrated it as a [l]urid and revolting story of conspiracy and murder.
Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. Burt Franklin.
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This contrasts with Helena Kelleher Kahn 's assessment of...
Literary responses May Laffan
Helena Kelleher Kahn claimed this work was that of a woman depressed enough to consider taking her own life.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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The unpublished manuscript (which is held at the Cambridge University Library ) marks a subdued...
Literary responses May Laffan
The response to Laffan's second novel was more positive than to her first, and it sold well.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
The Saturday Review declared [t]here was much that was clever in the author's earlier novel of...
Health May Laffan
In the early 1900s ML suffered a nervous breakdown, the cause of which is unknown. Family members described her behaviour at the time as eccentric
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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and temperamental; they also noted that she drank whiskey...
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

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