Come Into The Drawing Room, Doris
Mary, 17, lived on a mountainy farm in Ireland. She was invited to her first party at the Commercial Hotel in town. Her mother made her promise to return for the milking. The postman said that someone...
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The writer tells of an experience during her childhood on a farm in the West of Ireland. Her mother was poor, but had always taken great pride in her house. One day the postman delivered a black...
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In her 46th year, Mrs. Farley, who cleaned houses in London, found a boyfriend. Both had dreary marriages, were nearly 46, & were keen gardeners. They took Saturday afternoon walks. She mostly...
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Claire had a job in London reading manuscripts & was able to send an economy plane ticket to her mother in W. Ireland. The mother felt her daughter was strange: she had lost her faith, mixed with...
View ArticleThe Love Object
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Story about the death of the author's mother. She begins by describing the funeral, "a comic event despite the keenings and the ululations." A man looking for his lost sheep wanders into the cemetary...
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An older woman sorts out her memories and feelings regarding a recently terminated lover affair with a younger man. He is thirty and living with a young woman and their small child. The writer has been...
View ArticleThe Creature
Story narrated by a teacher who came to a small town in western Ireland to forget an unhappy love affair. She often visited an old woman in her seventies called The Creature. A widow, she had lived...
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Hickey works for a poor Irish family, he steals cabbages for them, he has drinking companions, is scandalized in the local paper, tends to the farm duties, and is paid little. He paid special attention...
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She is a British graphic designer, poised, lovely and sophisticated, who has a short-lived affair with a shy, moody, inarticulate Irish workingman named Boyce. Both being unaccustomed to each other,...
View ArticleThe Favorite
Tess is the favorite and much-admired daughter of a middle-income Irish farmer. She is adored by her family and the village people for her beauty and sweetness. In her teens she goes off to a convent...
View ArticleThe House of My Dreams
The writer is moving out of her house in London and reminisces about her past in the house & before that. She remembers her cruel husband who wanted custody of their children when they separated....
View ArticleBaby Blue
Elena, an unmarried London career woman, has an affair with a married man with two children. He lives in the Isle of Man in a large house, on his wife's money, and comes to London on weekends for his...
View ArticleThe Classroom
Writer remembers her Catholic childhood in Ireland. She describes the usual pattern of days. Tells about school: the girls' classroom, the high-strung teacher the onslaught of information: geography,...
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Nell, an Irish poet, comes to Vermont from New York to give a poetry reading at a university. She is put up overnight by Jane and her husband, Dan, who teach at the university. The day after the...
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At night, Mrs. Reinhardt has an active dream-life. She dreams of pictures, and she is always in them, or she dreams of white, fleecy sheep. One night, she dreams she finds a small, gold key with her...
View ArticleIn The Hours Of Darkness
As Elena drives her youngest son, Ian, to Cambridge University, she thinks that she is facing a predicament she had read about in novels-that of a divorced woman, bereft of children, having to grew old...
View ArticleA Rose in the Heart
Story about a mother and daughter in Ireland. The mother is helped by a midwife to give birth with a great deal of pain. She and the daughter she bore become inseperable. The sleep in the same bed. The...
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Anna is in her late 30's, divorced, with grown children, and works as a costumer for a theatre in England Her friend Ken, a director, brings Bobby to meet her. He is Irish-American, married and...
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