Language: English
Published by Clarnedon Press & Oxford University Press, Oxford
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Editions. Two separate pamphlets: Pp. (1) 142-159. Reprinted from Greece & Rome Second Series. Vol. IX, No. 2. October 1962; (2) 27. The former has staple rust. Else both good. Both SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author for Lorna Reynolds. Lorna Reynolds (1911-2003) was for a time lecturing in English at University College Dublin. In 1966 she became Professor in Modern English at University College Galway. She wrote poetry and a critical biography of Kate O'Brien with whom she was a good friend. At UCD among her contemporaries were Flann O'Brien, Mary Lavin, Cyril Cusack. Among her European colleagues were Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and others. She was a good cook and a frequent visitor to Italy. She was a highly respected educator, lecturer and a forceful personality. Herself and Kate O'Brien were close friends. Signed by Author.