Helena Kelleher Kahn

Standard Name: Kahn, Helena Kelleher

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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...
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...
Textual Production May Laffan
At the age of twenty-five ML published in Fraser's Magazine the anonymous article Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies, an attack on the Catholic system of women's education.
Helena Kelleher Kahn claims that ML signed...
Textual Production May Laffan
Richard Bentley published, anonymously, the edition of ML 's Christy Carew which is reckoned by most scholars (though not by Helena Kelleher Kahn ), to be the first.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2728 (1880): 182
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...
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...
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...

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