One of today’s finest short-story writers, Mary Lavin was born in Massachusetts but has long made Ireland her home. The ATLANTIC printed one of her first stories in 1940, when she was acclaimed as a bright new talent. Since then her work has continued to appear in collections, the most recent being THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, 1966.
Novelist and short-story writer, MARY LAVIN, although born in Massachusetts, has spent most of her life in Ireland. I protégée of Lord Dunsany, she turned to the Atlantic with her stories which, when published under the title Tales from Bective Bridge, were awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her first novel, The House in Clewe Street, was serialized in our columns,and her second, Mary O’Grady, was published in 1950.
MARY LAVIN does her writing today looking out on one of the-loveliest curves of the River Boyne, with the famous Hill of Tara rising above the distant trees. A protegee of Lord Dunsany, she turned to the Atlantic with her first short stories, which when published in 1942 in book form. under the title Tales from Beetive Bridge, were awarded the James Tail Black Memorial Brize. Her first novel. The House in Clewe Street, was serialized in our columns, and her second. Mary O’Grady, teas published in 1930.
MARY LAVIN does her writing today looking out on one of the loveliest curies of the River Boyne. with the famous Hill of Tara rising above the distant trees. A protégée of Lord Dunnsany. she turned to the Atlantic with her first short stories, which when published in 1942 in book form, under the title Tales from Bective Bridge, were awarded the James Tail Black Memorial Prize. Her first novel, The House in Clewe Street, was serialized in our columns, and her second, Mary O’Grady, was published in 1950.
MARY LAVIN does her writing today looking out on one of the loveliest carves of the River Boyne with the famous Hill of Tara rising above the distant trees. A protégée of Lord Dunsany, she turned to the Atlantic with her first short stories, which when published in 1942 in book form, under the title Tales from Bective Bridge, were awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her first novel. The House in Clewe Street, was serialized in our columns, and ice are happy to announce that her second. Mary O’Grady, has just been published.
SUMMARY. — This is the story of three generations of an Irish family. In the small, crumbling village of Castlerampart, the most prominent man is Theodore Coniffe, the village landlord. He is as penny-pinching as his wife Katherine is vain. Their two daughters, Theresa and Sara, grow up to be young ladies of property, if not of good looks. While they are still in their teens, Katherine dies in giving birth to her third daughter, Lily, who becomes the timid Cinderella of the household.
SUMMARY. — This is the story of three generations of an Irish family. In the small, crumbling village of Castlerampart, the most prominent man is Theodore Conitfe, the village landlord. He is as penny-pinching as his wife Katherine is vain. Their two daughters, Theresa and Sara, grow up to be young ladies of property, if not of good looks. While they are still in their teens, Katherine dies in giving birth to her third daughter, Lily. The older girls assume the responsibility of Lily s upbringing and she becomes the timid Cinderella of the household.
The household is upset when a young lawyer appears in the village. Old Theodore sees in Cornelius Galloway a potential son-in-law. Cornelius divides his attention between Theresa and Sara, but on an enchanted evening it is to Lily, the sixteen-year-old, that he proposes. After their honeymoon, the newlyweds drive home in their new coach (bought at Theodore’s expense), an extravagance which at first nettles and then tickles the old man. Cornelius is a spender. He buys a spirited mare and rides to hounds with the local gentry. He starts to build a new house outside town, but his career is cut short when in the fifth month of his marriage he is killed in the hunting field. Lily, the young widow, soon sinks back into a feeling of inferiority toward her older sisters, and even the birth of her son, Gabriel, does not restore her authority. When Theodore dies, it is found that little Gabriel, aged six, has inherited his fortune. But it is Theresa, with her iron severity, who rules the roost.
SUMMARY. — This is the story of three generations of an Irish family. In the small, crumbling village of Castlerampart, the most prominent man is Theodore Coniffe, the village landlord. He is as penny-pinching as his wife Katherine is vain. Their two daughters, Theresa and Sara, grow up to be young ladies of property, if not of good looks. While they are still in their teens, Katherine dies in giving birth to her third daughter, Lily. The older girls assume the responsibility of Lily’s upbringing and she becomes the timid Cinderella of the household. She is sixteen years younger than Theresa, and the bossing she receives from her oldest sister threatens to drain the youth from Lily’s not very robust character.
The household is upset when a young lawyer appears in the village. Old Theodore sees in Cornelius Galloway a potential son-in-law. Cornelius divides his attention between Theresa and Sara, but on an enchanted evening it is to Lily, the sixteen-year-old, that he proposes. After their honeymoon, the newlyweds drive home in their new coach (bought at Theodore’s expense), an extravagance which at first nettles and then tickles the old man. Cornelius is a spender. He buys a spirited mare and rides to hounds with the local gentry. He starts to build a new house outside town, but his career is cut short when, in the fifth month of his marriage, he is killed in the hunting field.
SUMMARY. — This is the story of three generations of an Irish family. In the small, crumbling village of Castlerampart, with its gray, ivy-grown ruins, its thatched cottages and turbulent little river, the most prominent man is Theodore Coniffe, the village landlord. He is indubitably a man of wealth, as the somber quality of his clothes and his house in Clewe Street give proof. Theodore is as penny-pinching as his wife Katherine is vain. Their two daughters, Theresa aud Sara, grow up to be young ladies of property, if not of good looks. But their chance for sociability and courtship is cut short by their mother’s sudden death while they are still in their teens. Katherine dies in giving birth to her third daughter, and little Lily becomes the timid Cinderella of the household. She is sixteen years younger than Theresa, and the bossing and discipline she receives from her oldest sister threaten to drain the youth from Lily’s not very robust character.
SUMMARY — Gabriel Galloway, a first novel remarkable for its power of characterization, tells the story of three generations of an Irish family. The opening chapters, which appeared in the Atlantic for November, familiarize us with the small crumbling village of Castlerampart with its gray, ivy-grown ruins, its thatched cottages and turbulent little river The most prominent man in Castlerampart is Theodore Coniffe, the village landlord, who is indubitably a man of wealth, as the somber quality of his clothes and his house in Clewe Street give proof. Theodore, lean and sharp-nosed is as penny-pinching as his wife Katherine is vain. Their two daughters, Theresa and Sara, now in their teens, will soon be young laches of property, if not of good looks. But to her dismay Katherine, in her thirty-ninth year, discovers that she is again with child. Theodore is secretly jubilant, for this time he is sure that it will be a boy. But the village thinks otherwise.