5/8/2023 0 Comments Molly keane best books![]() I only really saw him when I went to London. ![]() “He was a marvellous artist and I saw him in some of his Shakespeare plays. “He and Peggy Ashcroft were great friends of hers,” says Phipps. She also wrote several plays, including the West End hit Spring Meeting, which was directed by the legendary actor John Gielgud, who was later to become Phipps’ godfather. She had an early promising career as a writer, and published novels under the pseudonym MJ Farrell. It was a world she was well-qualified to write about, having been born into an Anglo-Irish family, the Skrines, in Co Kildare, in 1904. Keane became known in later life for her sharply-observed books chronicling the declining fortunes of the Anglo-Irish. It took me so long, far too long you can see a person as a whole when you are writing about them,” says Phipps, who lives in Cloyne, Co Cork. ![]() “I have found that it has been a very good thing writing about her - it has made me understand her in a way I wish I had in life. It has been 21 years since Keane’s death and her wish was finally brought to fruition earlier this year, with the publication of Phipps’ biography, Molly Keane: A Life. ![]()
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