Irish author (Eleanor) Norah Hoult (18981984) travelled in prominent literary circles and corresponded actively with some of the leading Irish authors of the early twentieth century, including James Stephens, Brigid Brophy, Sean OCasey and Sean OFaolain. Despite her reputation and a forty-four year publishing career, Hoults oeuvre remains surprisingly neglected. This edition seeks to rectify that critical oversight by introducing Hoults short story collection Poor Women! to a new generation of readers. Hoult is often compared to writers such as Kate OBrien and Edna OBrien for her representations of the oppressive facets of Catholicism. Less explored is her engagement with emotional paralysis and her detailed representations of widowhood and urban settings, inviting comparison to literary giants James Joyce and Mary Lavin. These similarities offer venues for further study.
Norah Hoults Poor Women!': A Critical Edition reintroduces a significant yet critically-neglected 20th-century Irish author. Hoults stories capture the restrictions imposed on women by society and its institutions. Often compared to writers such as Sean OFaolain, Frank OConnor, Kate OBrien and Edna OBrien, her work also shares characteristics with James Joyce and Mary Lavin.
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Introduces Norah Hoults (18981984) short story collection Poor Women! to a new generation of readers
Acknowledgements; Introduction;
1. Poor Women!;
2. Mary, Pity Women!;
3. Notes on the Text; Appendix
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan is a professor and dean at Le Moyne College and a scholar of Modern Irish literature. She has previously published two book-length works, Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibķn (2012) and a critical edition of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla (2013).
