Rachael Sealy Lynch

Standard Name: Lynch, Rachael Sealy

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Jennifer Johnston
She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen.
52
On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...
Literary responses Jennifer Johnston
John Sutherland, praising this novel in the London Review of Books, became the latest critic to take JJ 's use of language as her defining feature. This novel, he wrote, offers a description...
Literary Setting Jennifer Johnston
JJ says that the character Nancy Gulliver was a sort of homage to her mother, Shelagh Richards , even though the real and fictional women had little in common apart from their energy.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press.
67
Nancy...
Textual Features Jennifer Johnston
Rachael Sealy Lynch remarks that JJappears fascinated with oppositions and tensions. . . . She examines in her novels the transitional movements in people's lives: from North to South, England to Ireland, silence to...

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Texts

Lynch, Rachael Sealy. “Public Spaces, Private Lives: Irish Identity and Female Selfhood in the Novels of Jennifer Johnston”. Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identity, edited by Kathryn Kirkpatrick, University of Alabama Press, 2000, pp. 250-68.