Brown, Stephen J. Ireland in Fiction. Burt Franklin.
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Helena Kelleher Kahn
Standard Name: Kahn, Helena Kelleher
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | May Laffan | In her youth ML
also spent time in rural Ireland, visiting relatives in County Tipperary. Tipperary frequently appears in her fiction: Helena Kelleher Kahn
argues that the fictional Peatstown and Darraghstown of Hogan, M.P... |
| 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. |
| Travel | May Laffan | Helena Kelleher Kahn
speculates that ML
lived in Paris for a short time: she bases this argument on Laffan's fluency in the language (which was certainly not due to her convent education), and she finds... |
| Textual Features | May Laffan | A Singer's Story tells how Hester, a middle-class evangelical Protestant, falls on hard times, but is inspired by a biblical text to support herself as a singer of sacred music. On marrying a clergyman, she... |
| 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 |
| 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. 231 |
| 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. 67 |
| Textual Features | May Laffan | Set largely in Laffan's home town of Dublin, Hogan, M.P. captures an Ireland whose growing Catholic middle class is challenging the long empowered Protestant ascendancy. The action takes place three or four years before... |
| Textual Features | May Laffan | In this novel ML
returns to the controversy of Irish Home Rule so thoroughly treated in Hogan, M.P., putting criticisms of it into the mouths of middle-class, Protestant Irish residents. The attorney Mr Perry... |
| 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. 45, 135 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. |
| Textual Production | May Laffan | Some sources, like A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900 and the OCLC WorldCat, attribute to ML
a two-volume novel, King, or Knave?, which appeared in 1877 as by the author of two earlier... |
| Textual Production | May Laffan | According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn
, the first American edition of ML
's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 137 Kahn stands almost alone... |
| Textual Features | May Laffan | Laffan returns once more to the subject of female education (both Christy and Esther are convent-educated), but in Christy Carew the matter is caught up in that of women's constrained life-choices, generally, after they finish... |
| Literary responses | May Laffan | Overlooking the weak management of the plot because the main aim of the author is a social picture, the Athenæum called Christy Carew a truthful account of Dublin society told in such a way that... |
| Literary responses | May Laffan | Ismay's Children has been relatively ignored in recent Laffan studies: only Helena Kelleher Kahn
has addressed it. She reads it as a politicalallegory of Ireland under English rule, intended to put before English readers some... |
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Texts
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.