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Emily Lawless (1845–1913)

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The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Mitwirkender — 194 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Mitwirkender — 151 Exemplare
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Lawless, Emily
Rechtmäßiger Name
Lawless, The Honourable Emily
Andere Namen
Lytton, Edith
Geburtstag
1845-06-17
Todestag
1913-10-19
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
Ireland
UK
Geburtsort
Lyons House, Lyons Hill, County Kildare, Ireland
Wohnorte
Castle Lyons, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland
Gomshall, Surrey, England, UK
County Galway, Ireland
Ausbildung
governesses
Berufe
poet
novelist
Beziehungen
Oliphant, Margaret (mentor)
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Emily Lawless was born into a Protestant Irish landowning family in County Kildare, a daughter of Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry. She was educated at home by a governess. Emily Lawless remained unmarried. She drew on Irish themes for many of her works, and published 19 books in a wide range of forms, including novels, history, biography, nature studies, short stories, poetry, and autobiography. Her work has gained increasing critical attention today for its feminist and environmental concerns.

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Written by a member of the Irish aristocracy, Emily Lawless of Kildare, with her Anglo-centered view of the land wars in Ireland. Some very good writing, especially descriptions of the Burren landscape, but very unpleasant characterizations of the Irish, especially those who resent the English occupation of their land.

A review of the day, from _The Catholic World: Monthly Magazine of General Literature And Science_ VOL. XLIII. APRIL, 1886, TO SEPTEMBER, 1886.: "A CHAT ABOUT NEW BOOKS", by the Paulist Fathers, New York.

"Hurrish: A Study, by the Hon. Emily Lawless (Harper & Bros.), is an exceedingly disagreeable book. It pretends to be a study of life in North Clare. It is written with some cleverness and it is not without signs of talent, which facts make all the more unpardonable the deliberate attempt of the author to give the impression that the Irish peasant, on his native heath, is a bloodthirsty pagan in principle and a Thug in practice. It is true that Gerald Griffin painted Danny Mann hideously, but he did not create for us a colony of Danny Manns and ask us to believe that they were natural products of Irish soil. If Miss Lawless' view of the rural population of Ireland is largely shared by ladies of her class, it is not strange that the landlord is regarded by his tenants as without sympathy or even common humanity. Hurrish is a libel on Irish life—the more necessary to be denounced that it has an appearance of truth."
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Rezensionen
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