Mary Manning (writer)

Mary Manning Howe Adams
Mary Manning
Born	Mary Manning 30 June 1905 Dublin, Ireland
Died	27 June 1999 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	Irish
Other names	Mary Howe, Mary Adams
Occupation	writer

Mary Manning Howe Adams (30 June 1905 – 27 June 1999) was an Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.^[1][2]

Biography

Born and raised in Dublin, Mary Manning got her theatre training in Sara Allgood's teaching class in the Abbey Theatre. She had gone to school in Morehampton House and Alexandra College, Dublin. She also worked as a writer for the Gate Theatre. She adapted the novel Guests of the Nation for a film directed by Denis Johnston.^[2][3] Manning also helped found the Dublin Film Society in 1930. She worked as a film critic and co-founded the Gate Theatre arts magazine Motley in 1932.^[1]

In 1935 Manning moved to Boston where she married Harvard Law School professor Mark De Wolfe Howe. They had three daughters Fanny, Susan and Helen. When her husband died Manning returned to Dublin in 1967 and lived in Monkstown, County Dublin for another ten years. During this time Manning wrote for various publications such as Hibernia, The Irish Times. She later returned to live in Cambridge.^[2][3][4]

Manning was a founder of the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts^[3] and worked as drama director at Radcliffe College during World War II.^[2][4]

After Manning returned to the US she married Faneuil Adams of Boston, Massachusetts in 1980^[4][5]

Works

References

Further reading

Casella, Donna. "Mary Manning." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013. Web. October 9, 2015.