Maureen Duffy

Standard Name: Duffy, Maureen
Birth Name: Maureen Patricia Duffy
Pseudonym: D. M. Cayer
MD is known primarily a novelist, in which capacity much of her work blends elements from history, biography, autobiography, or science fiction. She has also produced plays, poems, and scholarly works. By the early twenty-first century her output was said to total twenty-eight prose works (fiction and non-fiction), poetry collections, and plays.
Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, pp. 4-5.
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MD writes often of primal bonds, of love and sexual desire, of the disadvantaged and marginalised, of gender identity and gender politics.

Connections

Connections Sort ascending Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Somerville
Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy , broadcast by the BBC
Dedications Lettice Cooper
Lettice Cooper dedicated her novel Snow and Roses to her fellow-campaigners for public lending right, Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Cultural formation Martin Ross
Maurice Collis , biographer of her and her cousin Edith Somerville, believes that MR was bisexual in orientation, rather than a thorough lesbian like Edith.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Her relationship with her cousin was written about in...

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Texts

Duffy, Maureen. Pictures for an Exhibition. Enitharmon Press, 2016.
Duffy, Maureen. Restitution. Fourth Estate, 1999.
Duffy, Maureen. Rites. Methuen, 1969.
Duffy, Maureen. Scarborough Fear. Macdonald, 1982.
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago, 1983.
Duffy, Maureen. The Erotic World of Faery. Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
Duffy, Maureen. “The Last Priestess”. God: an Anthology of Fiction, edited by Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu, Serpent’s Tail, 1992, pp. 127-33.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago, 1989.
Duffy, Maureen. The Orpheus Trail. Arcadia Books, 2009.
Duffy, Maureen. The Paradox Players. Hutchinson, 1967.
Duffy, Maureen. The Passionate Shepherdess. J. Cape, 1977.
Duffy, Maureen. The Venus Touch. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971.
Duffy, Maureen. Wounds. Hutchinson, 1969.