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The Country Girls is a trilogy by Irish author Edna O'Brien. It consists of three novels: The Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). The trilogy was re-released in 1986 in a single volume with a revised ending to Girls in Their Married Bliss and addition of an epilogue.
- Edna O'Brien
- 1960
Jul 30, 2024 · There, living in a sort of dreary exile with a husband who turned out to be cruel and controlling, O’Brien wrote The Country Girls in a three-week-long haze of inspiration. It changed her...
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Jul 29, 2024 · O'Brien was an unknown about to turn 30, living with her husband and two small children outside of London, when “The Country Girls” made her Ireland’s most notorious exile since James Joyce.
Apr 25, 2013 · When Edna O'Brien wrote The Country Girls in 1960, the book was acclaimed by critics, banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burned in churches for suggesting that the two small-town girls...
Jul 29, 2024 · The esteemed Irish author Edna O’Brien has died aged 93 after a long illness. O’Brien’s oeuvre of work, which spanned more than half a century, saw her explore the myriad complications and...
Jul 29, 2024 · Edna O'Brien, the award-winning Irish novelist known for 'The Country Girls' series and numerous other books, has died. She was 93.
Jul 28, 2024 · On finishing school, she moved to Dublin where she acquired her pharmacist’s licence in 1950, and in 1954, against the wishes of her family, she married the Czech-Irish writer Ernest Gébler. They moved to London where she began working as a reader for the publisher Hutchinson.
