Murray, Tony. London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity

Murray, Tony. London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012

Erin's 'revolting daughters' and Britannia : the fiction of diasporic Irish women in Britain, 1890-1916

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The “Wire-Puller”: L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of the Short Story

Through a consideration of her career as both editor of Atalanta and a short story author regularly featured in the pages of numerous periodicals including the Strand, this chapter explores and assesses L. T. Meade’s position as both a promoter and innovator of the short story form in the period of its rise to popular prominence. The chapter argues that, by regularly featuring short complete works of fiction in Atalanta and through her methods of encouraging, inspiring and challenging her girl readers (who included Virginia Woolf, Evelyn J. Sharp and Angela Brazil) to become writers and modernisers of short fiction themselves, Meade was among the earliest and most important advocates of the female-authored short story as a potentially ground-breaking and inventive fictional genre

'Power to Observe': Irish Women Novelists in Britain, 1890-1916

This book examines the lives and literature of six Irish novelists - Emily Lawless, L.T. Meade, George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, M.E. Francis and Katharine Tynan - who lived and worked in Britain between the years 1890 and 1916. It assesses their contribution to the debates which defined the era: the Irish Question and the Woman Question

Erin's 'revolting daughters' and Britannia : the fiction of diasporic Irish women in Britain, 1890-1916

This thesis focuses on the novels written and published by expatriate Irish women resident in Britain between the years 1890 and 1916, concentrating particularly on the ways in which their texts engaged in the dialogue and participated in the debates surrounding events of import to the political relationship between Britain and Ireland from the downfall of Charles Stewart Parnell to the Easter Rising. The poet William Butler Yeats defined this era as the 'long gestation' of Ireland's violent struggle towards independence from Britain, and it is to the works of Yeats and his Revivalist cohort that critical attention has overwhelmingly turned in assessments of the role that Irish literature played in the politics of the period. The practice of privileging Revivalist texts has tended to occlude the contribution of Irish writers whose work was extrinsic to that movement, and has most notably obfuscated the participation of novels written by Irish women. This study seeks to redress the imbalance of scholarly work by taking into account the critically neglected texts of a group of Irish women writers who were living and working in Britain during the period, and were thus placed in the complex cultural locus between 'Irish' and 'English'. The work of six authors - Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade, George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, M. E. Francis and Katharine Tynan - who were producing and publishing texts from just such a cultural location is the focus of this study. Between them, these writers generated nearly 500 novels, almost all of which are now out of print and few of which have received sustained scholarly attention. By excavating biographical details for each of these authors and examining a selection of their works in their relevant historical contexts, this study assesses the extent to which novels written by six Irish migrant women from varying class-based and religious backgrounds communicate the experience of living in- between two cultures and at the centre of the prevailing political and social debates of the era.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

George Egerton, James Joyce and the Irish Künstlerroman

George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne, 1859–1945), from Co. Laois, was the New Woman author most closely associated with the Decadent movement. As such, she was also the New Woman writer most profoundly affected by the downfall of Oscar Wilde. After the Wilde trials of 1895, Egerton's connection to Decadence and New Womanhood would make her work anathema to much of the British public. This essay will argue that ongoing tendencies to situate her texts solely within the New Woman categorisation and an English cultural location have had the detrimental effect of obscuring their importance to a specifically Irish literary tradition. By examining Egerton's 1898 novel The Wheel of God, focusing on its status as an Irish Künstlerroman written from a position of exile, and drawing comparisons between it and the works of James Joyce, this essay will seek to redress this imbalance

Displaced identities in the short stories of George Egerton

This thesis provides an analysis of a selection of short stories written by George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne) in her first three published volumes: Keynotes (1893), Discords (1894) and Symphonies (1897). The study examines Egerton's problematic position as an Irish writer, with a specific critical focus on evaluating the relationship between Egerton's texts and her status as both a woman of Irish origins and a migrant. The relevance of Irish cultural and historical contexts to Egerton's texts is assessed, and amongst those evaluated in relationship to her work are the Great Famine, the Irish Diaspora, British imperialist ideologies, Catholicism, growing religious sectarianism throughout the nineteenth century, the Home Rule movement and the fall of Charles Stewart Pamell. Also under consideration in this work is the suggestion that Egerton repeatedly portrays the effects of inhabiting a space 'inbetween' nations, religions and genders in her fiction, and that these portrayals are informed and instigated by her position as a migrant female of Irish origins with ambivalent cultural and religious affinities. Critical focus is placed on the relationship between Egerton's displaced subjects and twentieth and twenty-first century theories concerned with dwelling in displacement, including those of Edward Said, Avtar Brah, Julia Kristeva, Homi Bhabha and Aijaz Ahmad. Through the examination of a representative selection of Egerton's stories, the contexts within which they were written, and theories concerned with diaspora and migration, this thesis contemplates the means by which the multiple types of displacement portrayed in Egerton's texts confront the procedures and values of her era at the same time that they are complexly and ambiguously informed by, and complicit in, the discourses of her time

Irish Women's Writing, 1878–1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty

Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to give them the attention they deserve for their contributions to the literary landscape of Ireland, which has included far more women writers, with far more diverse identities, than hitherto acknowledged. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores how women writers including Emily Lawless, L. T. Meade, Katharine Tynan, Lady Gregory, Rosa Mulholland, Ella Young and Beatrice Grimshaw used their work to advance their own private and public political concerns through astute manoeuvrings both in the expanding publishing industry and against the partisan expectations of an ever-growing readership. The chapters investigate their dialogue with a contemporary politics that included the topics of education, cosmopolitanism, language, empire, economics, philanthropy, socialism, the marriage 'market', the publishing industry, readership(s), the commercial market and employment