Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Maureen Duffy
Standard Name: Duffy, Maureen
Birth Name: Maureen Patricia Duffy
Pseudonym: D. M. Cayer
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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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writes often of primal bonds, of love and sexual desire, of the disadvantaged and marginalised, of gender identity and gender politics.
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
Intertextuality and Influence
Rose Tremain
RT
acknowledges the help of her fellow novelist Maureen Duffy
with a poem which passes through the head of one of her characters. It opens: Love was my dancing partner till / darkness fell in...
Textual Production
Michelene Wandor
Methuen
's drama catalogue for 1981-2 had listed seventy-five playwrights, only two of them women (as was pointed out by Mary Remnant
, who succeeded to MW
as editor after the next three volumes in...
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Texts
Duffy, Maureen. Pictures for an Exhibition. Enitharmon Press, 2016.