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Maureen Duffy


Born
in Worthing, The United Kingdom
October 21, 1933

Died
May 27, 2026

Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Memoir


Maureen Patricia Duffy was a British novelist, poet, playwright, nonfiction author and activist.

Duffy's work often used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology as frameworks. Her writing was distinctive for its use of contrasting voices, or streams of consciousness, often including the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels have been linked to a European tradition of literature which explores reality through the use of language and questioning, rather than through traditional linear narrative. James Joyce in particular, and Modernism in general, are significant influences on her fiction, as is Joyce Cary.

Duffy, with author and activist Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and two others founded the Writers' Action Group in 1972, which gained more than 7 ...more

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Average rating: 3.41 · 604 ratings · 104 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors
First Born
3.57 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
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That's How It Was
3.97 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1962 — 7 editions
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Capital
3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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The Microcosm
3.38 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1966 — 11 editions
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Alchemy
2.47 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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The Erotic World of Faery
3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions
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Londoners, an elegy
3.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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Phoenix: The Passionate She...
3.46 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions
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The Orpheus Trail
2.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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England: The making of the ...
3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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“The pain of love is the pain of being alive.
It is a perpetual wound.”
― Maureen Duffy
tags: angry-love, life, love, perpetual
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“History is a more or less bunk, the only history that is worth a damn is what we make today.”
― Maureen Duffy, The Orpheus Trail
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