ML
built friendships with her early patron, the successful Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany,
and his wife, Lady Beatrice
. Each maintained a regular correspondence with her, Edward Dunsany discussing her writing and Beatrice chatting of...
UKLG
has said: I intended to be a writer, as long as I can remember.
qtd. in
Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House, 2011.
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As a child she submitted a story (breezy in style, involving a time-machine and the origins of life...
Publishing
Mary Lavin
ML
's The Green Grave and the Black Grave was published in Atlantic Monthly, following a recommendation to the editor by Edward Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
(himself a popular writer).
The London edition followed from Michael Joseph
the next year, with a Reader's Union
edition two years after that. There are several modern editions. A Town House
paperback of 1996 has a new introduction by...
Textual Production
Mary Lavin
In a prefaceML
presents her ideas on short-story writing. She explains that her family obligations imposed a selectivity that I might not have otherwise been strong enough to impose on my often feverish overfertile...
Textual Production
Mary Lavin
The Mary Lavin Papers are held in the Morris Library
at South Illinois University
in Carbondale, Illinois. They contain about twenty short stories, most of those collected in The Great Wave and Other Stories...
Timeline
By late September 1910: Irish writer Lord Dunsany published A Dreamer's...
Writing climate item
By late September 1910
Irish writer Lord Dunsany
published A Dreamer's Tales, a volume (not his first) of fantasy stories: strange visions from [a] dream-world.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.