pantheistic epiphanies experienced by Lavin’s protagonists. Thomas J. Murray looks at Lavin’s criticisms of the Catholic sense of sin and guilt. Jeanette Roberts Shumaker compares “A Nun’s Mother” and “Sarah” (Tales from Bective Bridge) with two Edna O’Brien stories in an effective demonstration of “the female martyrdom (en)gendered by the Madonna myth” in Lavin’s nuns, wives, mothers, and “fallen women,” in which “their varieties of sacrifice stem from self-disgust fostered by failing to reach the standards of the Madonna myth” (p. 185).
Works by Mary Lavin
Tales from Bective Bridge. Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.
The Long Ago and Other Stories. London: Michael Joseph, 1944.
The House in Clewe Street. London: Michael Joseph, 1945.
The Becker Wives and Other Stories. London: Michael Joseph, 1946.
At Sallygap and Other Stories. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947.
Mary O’Grady. London: Michael Joseph, 1950.
The Patriot Son and Other Stories. London: Michael Joseph, 1956.
The Great Wave and Other Stories. London and New York: Macmillan, 1961.
In the Middle of the Fields and Other Stories. London: Constable, 1967; New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Happiness and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Collected Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
A Memory and Other Stories. London: Constable, 1972; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
The Shrine and Other Stories. London: Constable, 1977; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
A Family Likeness and Other Stories. London: Constable, 1985.
Works about Mary Lavin
Bowen, Zack. Mary Lavin. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1975.
Kelly, A. A. Mary Lavin: Quiet Rebel. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1980.
Koenig, Marianne. “Mary Lavin: The Novels and Stories.” Irish University Review 9 (1979): 244–61.
Kosok, Heinz. “Mary Lavin: A Bibliography.” Irish University Review 9 (1979): 279–312.
Levenson, Leah. The Four Seasons of Mary Lavin. Dublin: Marino Press, 1998.
Lynch, Rachel Sealy. “‘The Fabulous Female Form’: The Deadly Erotics of the Male Gaze in Mary Lavin’s The House in Clewe Street.” Twentieth-Century Literature 43.3 (1997): 326–38.
Martin, Augustine. Afterword. Mary O’Grady, by Mary Lavin. New York: Virago, 1986.
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