Helena Kelleher Kahn

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...

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. This contrasts with Helena Kelleher Kahn 's assessment of...

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...

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...

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...

Helena Kelleher Kahn claimed this work was that of a woman depressed enough to consider taking her own life. The unpublished manuscript (which is held at the Cambridge University Library ) marks a subdued...

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

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 and temperamental; they also noted that she drank whiskey...