6/7/2023 0 Comments Good behavior molly keane![]() ![]() ![]() The Keane family were Anglo-Irish, Protestants among Catholics, whose ongoing political conflicts boiled over in the War of Irish Independence during Keane’s childhood. Keane began writing as a means of making extra money and chose her pseudonym (from a random pub sign) to avoid the approbation of her peers: Women were discouraged from reading books, much less writing them. 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 daughter of a whose passion for dogs and horses left little time for parenting, and of a mother who made a name-though she too used a nom de plume-as a minor regional poet. When Molly Keane’s Good Behaviour was first published in 1981, the author was 76. ![]()
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