Mary Beckett
| Mary Beckett | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
1926 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Died |
2013 Dublin, Ireland[1] |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | St. Mary's Training College[2] |
| Notable works |
Give Them Stones A Belfast Woman A Literary Woman[2] |
| Notable awards | 1987 The Sunday Tribute Arts Award for Literature |
| Children | 5 |
Mary Beckett (1926–2013)[2] was an Irish author.
She was born in Belfast.[3] In the 1950s, she wrote radio plays for BBC Northern Ireland and had several short stories published.[4] She worked as a teacher, married and had five children. She was not published again until 1980's A Belfast Woman.[5]
Her non-fiction includes the short story collections A Belfast Woman (1980) and A Literary Woman (1990). She wrote one novel, Give them Stones (1987), and several children's books including Orla was Six, Orla at School, A Family Tree, and Hannah, or the Pink Balloons.
References
- ↑ Casey, Philip. "Beckett, Mary". Irish Writers Online. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ferguson, Amanda (12 November 2013). "Mary Beckett: Literary world mourning loss of top woman writer". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ↑ Alexander G. Gonzalez (ed.). Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood. pp. 14–17. ISBN 978-0313328831.
- ↑ Matthews, Kelley (Summer 2014). "A Belfast Woman: Shame, Guilt, and Gender in Mary Beckett’s Short Stories of the 1950s". New Hibernia Review (University of St. Thomas) 18 (2): 97–109.
- ↑ Pelan, Rebecca (2006). Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North And South. Syracuse University Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-0815630593.
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