MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable, 1985.
Mary MacCarthy
Standard Name: MacCarthy, Mary
Used Form: Molly MacCarthy
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | Molly
, Blanche's youngest child but one, married the literary journalist and critic Desmond MacCarthy
, and became a friend of Virginia Woolf
. |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Shortly after the wedding, Julia became the charge of Alys Russell
, a suffrage and temperance activist who was also the aunt of Ray (Costelloe) Strachey
, sister of writer Logan Pearsall Smith
and Mary Berenson |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | In December 1953 JS
was elected to the Memoir Club
, a group which, begun by Molly MacCarthy
and the Bloomsbury Group in 1920, continued until the mid-1960s. Its members gathered to present autobiographical papers... |
Friends, Associates | Hope Mirrlees | After her return from Paris, HM
was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien
and T. S. Eliot
, Lytton Strachey
, Molly
and Desmond MacCarthy
, Duncan Grant
,... |
Friends, Associates | Flannery O'Connor | Others she met at Yaddo included Patricia Highsmith
, who admired her seriousness, Elizabeth Hardwick
, Robert Lowell
, whom she hoped to convert to Catholicism, and |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen |
politics | Dorothy Bussy | DB
and her daughter Janie were active anti-Fascists during World War II, though their specific activities and affiliations are unclear. In November 1944 Vanessa Bell
wrote to Molly MacCarthy
about some of the Bussys' work... |
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Texts
Cecil, Lord David, and Mary MacCarthy. “Foreword”. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, Constable, 1985, pp. 5-13.