Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | |
Friends, Associates | Kate O'Brien | During her time at Oxford, KOB
developed friendships with the Irishwoman Enid Starkie
(a French scholar of note and later the holder of the Légion d'Honneur) and the English novelist E. M. Delafield
. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | Lorna Reynolds
and Eavan Boland
liken this novel to the work of John Galsworthy
, as it is the saga of several generations of an Irish family building a business and growing in wealth. Boland, Eavan, and Kate O’Brien. “Introduction”. The Last of Summer, Virago, 1990, p. v - xv. xi |
Literary responses | Kate O'Brien | |
Literary responses | Kate O'Brien | Lorna Reynolds
reads this as a charming novel, but one that does not break new ground in KOB
's development. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 88 Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 93 |
Literary responses | Kate O'Brien | Nonetheless, it was the opinion of Lorna Reynolds
(who heard KOB
read these chapters aloud) that she had not lost her touch. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 133 |
Literary responses | Kate O'Brien | Lorna Reynolds
calls this book highly selective and idiosyncratic. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 132 |
Residence | Kate O'Brien | In 1960 KOB
moved back to England: to Boughton, near Faversham in Kent (within reach of Canterbury). She had no sense of being an exile in England, her biographer Lorna Reynolds
insists. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 106, 132 |
Textual Features | Kate O'Brien | This book (again set in Mellick, a fictionalised Limerick) highlights the puritanical moral complacency of Irish society. Lorna Reynolds
sees it as a response to the banning of Mary Lavelle; she judges the... |
Textual Features | Kate O'Brien | As in O'Brien's other novels, many topics are on the table. Both the insular and the cosmopolitan strands in Irish culture are examined. Again, Lorna Reynolds
feels that this novel sprang from the banning of... |
Travel | Kate O'Brien | She was, says her biographer Lorna Reynolds
, a born traveller. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 105 |
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