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Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996), née Mary Nesta Skrine, and who also wrote as M. J. Farrell, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
Apr 19, 2024 · Molly Keane (born July 4, 1904, Ballyrankin, County Kildare, Ireland—died April 22, 1996, Ardmore) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright whose subject was the leisure class of her native Ireland.
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Jan 21, 2017 · Good Behaviour was the first novel Molly Keane published under her own name, and her best, says her editor Diana Athill. Here, she remembers their friendship
May 18, 2021 · Molly Keane’s life was defined by precisely the kind of good behavior that Good Behaviour skewers. Born Mary Nesta Skrine in 1904, a daughter of the fading Anglo-Irish gentry, Keane was a moody, red-haired child with a rebellious streak; the cook called her “that right red rip.”
Apr 22, 1996 · With Good Behaviour in 1981, she burst on a largely unsuspecting world as a charming, wickedly witty old lady, very much Molly Keane, an independent Irishwoman and proud of it.
Apr 22, 1996 · Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare). She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow.
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Jun 11, 2021 · Good Behaviour by Molly Keane NYRB Classics, 2021. When Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour was first published in 1981, the author was 76. Decades earlier, as “M.J. Farrell,” she had written a number of well-received novels—“horsey, housey romances” one critic called them—that drew upon her post-WWI life in County Kildare, Ireland, the ...
