Following her divorce EOB
received custody of her two young sons and raised them by herself. Ernest Gébler's diaries, excerpted in his son's
memoir, include an entry...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edna O'Brien
EOB
's son Karl (Carlo)
, who later became a novelist himself, was born in Dublin.
Carlo Gébler's Memoir provides a different date for his birth (as he does for his parents' marriage) from...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edna O'Brien
Carlo Gébler
writes that his parents never kept secret the fact that his mother was pregnant with him when they married. He also notes that he was his father's second child to be named Karl...
Occupation
Edna O'Brien
While she was an evening student EOB
worked as an apprentice at Magner's Chemist Shop
on the North Circular Road during the daytime. According to her son Carlo
, it was while she was working...
Textual Production
Edna O'Brien
EOB
wrote this novel in a few weeks, shortly after she moved to London with her husband and young children.
Magill, Frank N., editor. Great Women Writers. Henry Holt, 1994.
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According to her son Carlo
, her husband, Ernest Gébler, tried unsuccessfully to take...
