Mary Isabel Leslie

Mary Isabel Leslie
Born 1899
Dublin, Ireland
Died 1978
Occupation Writer
Nationality Irish
Genre Romance

Mary Isabel Leslie (1899 –1978) was an Irish nationalist and writer with over 30 novels to her name.[1][2][3][4][5]

Life and work

Leslie was born in Portabello House, Dublin in April 1899[6] to Reverend John Leslie and Mary Richardson Smith.[7] She had one sister Jean Annette. Her father was later Dean of Lismore though Leslie was raised in Co. Tipperary.[8] She got her secondary education from the Sherbourne Girls’ School and followed that with attending Trinity College Dublin. Leslie remained in university where she was academically successful, getting a gold medal in 1922 and gained her D.Litt in 1943 for her work on Felicia Hemans.[9][10]

Leslie wrote poetry and novels under two pen names, that of Jean Herbert and Temple Lane.[10] Her novel Friday’s Well was adapted for the stage by Frank Carney in 1950.[9][11]She was a member of Dublin's Women Writers’ Club founded by Blanaid Salkeld along with Dorothy Macardle, Elizabeth Bowen, Helen Waddell, Maura Laverty, Winifred Letts, Sybil le Brocquy, Patricia Lynch, Rosamond Jacob, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Nora Connolly O'Brien, Christine Longford, Ethel Davidson and Teresa Deevy.[12]

Bibliography

  • Burnt Bridges (London: John Long 1925; pop. edn. 1926)
  • No Just Cause (London: John Long 1925), pop. edn. 1926
  • Defiance (London: John Long 1926)
  • Second Sight (London: John Long 1926)
  • Watch the Wall (London: John Long 1927)
  • The Band of Orion (London: Jarrolds 1928)
  • The Little Wood (London: Jarrolds 1930)
  • Blind Wedding (London: Jarrolds 1931)
  • Sinner Anthony (London: Jarrolds 1933)
  • The Trains Go South (London: Jarrolds 1938), foreword by Lynn Doyle
  • Battle of the Warrior (London: Jarrolds 1940)
  • House of My Pilgrimage (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: Frederick Muller 1941)
  • Friday’s Well (Dublin: Talbot 1943)
  • Come Back! (Dublin: Talbot 1945)
  • My Bonny’s Away (Dublin: Talbot 1947)
  • Fisherman’s Wake (Dublin & Cork: Talbot, n.d.) (London: Longmans 1940); Curlews (Dublin: Talbot 1945).

References

  1. ↑ "British & Irish Women Writers of Fiction 1910-1960 (L)". Furrowed middlebrow. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Desmond Clarke (1985). Ireland in Fiction. Cork: Royal Carbery.
  3. ↑ "Holdings: Fisherman's wake". Catalogue National Library of Ireland. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Author Mary Isabel Leslie". Catalogue National Library of Ireland. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ R. Reginald; Douglas Menville; Mary A. Burgess (1 September 2010). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Wildside Press LLC. pp. 317–. ISBN 978-0-941028-76-9.
  6. ↑ "Birth registration" (PDF). Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  7. ↑ "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". Census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". Census national archives. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  9. 1 2 "Mary Isabel Leslie". Ricorso. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  10. 1 2 Stephen Brown (1919). Ireland in Fiction. Dublin: Maunsel.
  11. ↑ "Temple Lane: Irish Woman Poet – Elliptical Movements". Https:. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  12. ↑ Dr Deirdre Brady (May 7, 2015). "An Irish literary set that was more Bloomsbury than barstool".

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