Val Hennessy

Standard Name: Hennessy, Val

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Literary responses Margaret Forster
Val Hennessy in the Daily Mail reported reading this novel at speed, enjoying its flavour of ordinary women's actual lives.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Ruth Gorb took it as an indication of the ability to make such lives into...
Literary responses Germaine Greer
A female gynaecologist mentioned in the book as uncaring and insensitive successfully sued Greer for damages.
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999.
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The Penguin paperback which followed the year after publication came garlanded with praise from British feminist writers: Wendy Cope
Literary responses Kate O'Brien
This novel fell foul of the Irish Censorship Board , which banned it as immoral because of its portrayal of a young Irish girl choosing of her own will (rather than being led astray) to...

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