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Molly Keane

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Molly Keane


Born
in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland
July 20, 1904

Died
April 22, 1996


Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare). She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. She used her married name for her later novels, several of which (Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote 11 novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. Farrell . Molly was a member of Aosdána. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. In 198 ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 5,980 ratings · 768 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
Good Behaviour
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3.89 avg rating — 3,903 ratings — published 1981 — 45 editions
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Time After Time
3.71 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions
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Loving And Giving
3.69 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1988 — 16 editions
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Treasure Hunt
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3.71 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1952 — 9 editions
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Molly Keane's Nursery Cooking
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions
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Molly Keane's Ireland: An a...
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Molly Keane 5 Title Set Spe...
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“Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.”
― Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
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“Certainty fell away from me as though a loved person dropped my hand in indifference.”
― Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
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“for a ring which Lady Grizel had lost – her engagement ring – star sapphire and diamonds.”
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Polls

April 2022 - Family & Self

Wise Children by Angela Carter (1991) 240 pages
 
  9 votes, 27.3%

The Outsider by Albert Camus (1942) 119 pages
 
  8 votes, 24.2%

 
  8 votes, 24.2%

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961) 242 pages
 
  5 votes, 15.2%

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel (1926) 247 pages
 
  2 votes, 6.1%

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (1981) 291 pages
 
  1 vote, 3.0%

33 total votes
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