Carlo Gébler
writes that his parents never kept secret the fact that his mother was pregnant with him when they married. He also notes that he was his father's second child to be named Karl...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edna O'Brien
EOB
, pregnant, married Czech-Irish writer Ernest Gébler
, whom she had met through her work.
Most sources, such as the Contemporary Authors New Revision Series and Feminist Writers, give the date of EOB
This novel was published during the time that EOB
was separated from her husband
. It was immediately popular, with a second impression the same year it was released and another in 1965.
O’Brien, Edna. Girls in Their Married Bliss. J. Cape, 1964.
prelims
Occupation
Edna O'Brien
While she was an evening student EOB
worked as an apprentice at Magner's Chemist Shop
on the North Circular Road during the daytime. According to her son Carlo
, it was while she was working...
