EOB
's own home was without books, except for prayer-books, cookery books, and bloodstock reports (her father being keen on horse-racing). Her mother
would not allow literature in the house because she thought it was...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edna O'Brien
EOB
was extremely close to her mother, Lena (Cleary) O'Brien
. She wrote that she felt umbilically and osmotically attached to her,
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986.
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yet the relationship was also difficult, with blame on her mother's side...
Textual Features
Edna O'Brien
The book centres on the mother-daughter relationship of Dilly (who is dying of ovarian cancer) and Eleonora (who has become a successful writer and whose final hospital visit is curtailed by the need to return...
