Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
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Dedications
Eavan Boland
EB
published The Journey and Other Poems, dedicated to her mother
, with Arlen House
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Family and Intimate relationships
Eavan Boland
Her mother, the painter Frances Kelly
, died in 2002.
Weekes, Ann Owens. Unveiling Treasures. Attic Press.
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Textual Features
Eavan Boland
The title poem, deceptively simple, balances an adult's joy and grief over babyhood: from This is the best I can be / Housewife / To this nursery / Where you hold on, / Dear life...