Jennifer Johnston

JJ , a twentieth-century Irish novelist and playwright, often focuses on Irish historical and political themes in the fourteen novels she had published by 2007.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
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She writes about coming-of-age themes, issues of loyalty and treachery, family relationships, and friendship, especially friendship between young men that involves class divides or national loyalties. Critic Caitriona Moloney observes that her works refuse closure.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
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Photo portrait of Jennifer Johnston. She wearrs an orange and brown neck scarf and an indigo chambray tunic. The background is very dark so as not to be visible.

Milestones

12 January 1930

JJ was born in Dublin, the elder of two children of parents who were both deeply involved in Irish theatre.
“Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Between 1933 and 1947

As a child, JJ wrote her own plays and they were acted in school concerts. She also wrote stories, but as she grew older she began to write less frequently.
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen.
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Kenneally, Michael. “Q. and A. With Jennifer Johnston”. Irish Literary Supplement, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 25-7.
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February 1991

JJ published another novel through Sinclair-Stevenson , The Invisible Worm, which is titled from Blake 's poem The Sick Rose.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Biography

Birth and Childhood

12 January 1930

JJ was born in Dublin, the elder of two children of parents who were both deeply involved in Irish theatre.
“Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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