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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mary Lavin Information
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 Mary Josephine Lavin (10 June 1912 – 25 March 1996) was a noted Irish short story writer and novelist. She is regarded as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated world of Irish...
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 The Independent - London Obituary: Mary Lavin
03/26/1996: 845 words, approx. 3 pages A writer sometimes compared with Chekhov, Mary Lavin will always be associated with the mid-lands of Ireland, for her fiction transformed that locale into something brimming with incipient universality, rich in nuance, at once harmonious and sharply intelligent. Her American background (she returned... summary from source:
Studies in Short Fiction Words that do not speak themselves: Mary Lavin's 'Happiness.'
09/22/1994: 2,876 words, approx. 10 pages Linguistic ambiguity becomes a means of pointing out the uncertainties that exist in the narrative offered by the narrator in Mary Lavin's 'Happiness.' Lavin's characters use words that have alternate and sometimes directly opposite meanings, such as the word father to mean both a...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Marianne Koenig
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In the following essay, Koenig compares Lavin's novels The House in Clewe Street and Mary O'Grady to Lavin's short stories contending that parts of the novels could easily succeed as short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Bonnie Kime Scott
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In the following essay, Scott considers Lavin's fascination with the human mind, particularly the female mind, as evinced in her short fiction.
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