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This anthology provides access to neglected theatrical work and
broadens our understanding of the history of Irish theatre as well
as the vital role of women within it. The introduction places these
plays in dialogue with one another as well as within the national
context of the repealing of women’s rights during the Irish Free
State years. These are plays by authors including Mary Manning,
Dorothy Macardle, Mary Devenport O’Neill, Kate O'Brien and
Margaret O’Leary, which are difficult to access, but which are
increasingly visible in Irish theatre scholarship. This unique
collection places the playwrights in dialogue to form a tradition
of women’s theatrical work that challenges the male-dominated
literary canon of Irish theatre, as well as enriching the body of
women’s theatrical work in the Anglophone world during the
interwar years. Includes the plays: Kate O’Brien –
Distinguished Villa (1926) Margaret O’Leary – The Woman (1929)
Mary Manning – Youth’s the Season (1931) Dorothy Macardle –
Witch’s Brew (1931) Mary Devenport O’Neill – Bluebeard (1933)
A classic story of superstition and sorcery set in 1950s France.
"The village which had so charmed her had grown sinister..."
Exhausted after years of unhappiness, 20-year-old Juliet Cunningham
is delighted to find herself living in a village in the French
Alps. Recovering in the fresh air of the mountains, she becomes
involved in local life. As Juliet makes new friends and meets
fellow wanderers - such as the handsome young Michael - she hears
of stories of witchery, of fortunes told, of spells, and murder ...
but are the rumours of the witch true, and can Juliet escape in
time? First published in 1953, Dark Enchantment evokes a magical
pre-war France, and was written after Macardle's other successful
and influential novels The Uninvited and The Unforeseen. This
edition of Dark Enchantment features an introduction by Caroline B
Heafey. For fans of Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier and Hotel du
Lac by Anita Brookner. Also by Dorothy Macardle, The Uninvited and
The Unforeseen.
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The Unforeseen (Paperback)
Dorothy Macardle; Introduction by Luke Gibbons
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Discovery Miles 3 120
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When Virgilia Wilde begins to suffer from strange visions she
visits her local doctor, reporting somberly that her imagination
has been playing tricks. What transpires is far more alarming;
Virgilia seems to have developed the power of precognition, and
with this terrible ability comes fears for the safety of her
beloved daughter... The follow-up to the critically acclaimed
haunted-house novel The Uninvited is one of the most sharply
observed accounts we have of middle-class post-war Dublin.
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The Uninvited (Paperback)
Dorothy Macardle; Introduction by Luke Gibbons
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A gothic, bone-chilling Irish ghost story first published in 1941
and now brought back into print. The title benefits from an
introduction by well-known academic Professor Luke Gibbons and
Martin Scorsese and various critics, including William K. Everson
and Leonard Maltin, regard The Uninvited as one of the best ghost
stories ever filmed.
This anthology provides access to neglected theatrical work and
broadens our understanding of the history of Irish theatre as well
as the vital role of women within it. The introduction places these
plays in dialogue with one another as well as within the national
context of the repealing of women’s rights during the Irish Free
State years. These are plays by authors including Mary Manning,
Dorothy Macardle, Mary Devenport O’Neill, Kate O'Brien and
Margaret O’Leary, which are difficult to access, but which are
increasingly visible in Irish theatre scholarship. This unique
collection places the playwrights in dialogue to form a tradition
of women’s theatrical work that challenges the male-dominated
literary canon of Irish theatre, as well as enriching the body of
women’s theatrical work in the Anglophone world during the
interwar years. Includes the plays: Kate O’Brien –
Distinguished Villa (1926) Margaret O’Leary – The Woman (1929)
Mary Manning – Youth’s the Season (1931) Dorothy Macardle –
Witch’s Brew (1931) Mary Devenport O’Neill – Bluebeard (1933)
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