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02042aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 080004BA621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 170207t20172017enkaf 001 0beng d 020 $a 0349007527 020 $a 9780349007526 035 $a (OCoLC)971584714 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d UAB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a e-ie--- 050 4 $a PR6021 E33 Z845 2017 100 1 $a Phipps, Sally, $e author. 245 10 $a Molly Keane : $b a life / $c Sally Phipps. 264 1 $a London : $b Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, $c 2017. 300 $a xiv, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 500 $a Illustration on lining papers. 520 $a Molly Keane (1904 - 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the 30s, her work directed by John Gielgud. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. Farrell. In 1981, aged seventy, she published Good Behaviour under her own name. The manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was lent to a visitor, the actress Peggy Ashcroft, who encouraged Keane to publish it. Here, for the first time, is Kean'es biography and, written by one of her two daughters, it provides an honest portrait of a fascinating, complicated woman who was a brilliant writer and a portrait of the Anglo-Irish world of the first half of the twentieth century. 600 10 $a Keane, Molly, $d 1904-1996. 650 0 $a Women authors, Irish $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, Irish $y 20th century $v Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003031934.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=080004BA621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search