Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Textual Features | May Laffan | Again ML
blends empathy with judgement. She evokes working-class freedoms and pleasures denied to the middle class (a highly unusual approach at a time when the poor were often seen as an inferior race). By... |
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... |
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 Production | May Laffan | |
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 |
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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