Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2001 234...

Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2001 234 pp ISBN 0-7618-1934-7 $3350

In Seeking a rural parts Taura S. Napier examines the life writings of six of the twentieth century's in the greatest degree important Irish women authors: the playwright, folklorist, and literary patron Lady Augusta Gregory; novelist, bard and autobiographer par excellence Katharine Tynan; literary critic Mary Colum; novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen; "Iberophile" and novelist Kate O'Brien; and the contemporary bard and critic Eavan Boland. In this lively and readable studious mood Napier traces how these