![]() ![]() ![]() A play, Spring Meeting, directed by John Gielgud, was a hit in 1938, and in 1939 she married Bobbie Keane, an accomplished horseman. Devoted Ladies, from 1934, describing a turbulent lesbian relationship, marked a turn to ward darker subjects, and subsequent novels concerned widows, spinsters, and abusive matriarchs. Farrell, the name she would continue to employ in the course of a busy and successful career of several decades. Keane’s first novel, The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, a comedy of the idiosyncrasies of the fading Anglo-Irish aristocracy that she wrote when bedridden at seventeen, appeared in 1926 under the pseudonym M. J. Her father, a former colonial governor of Mauritius, had a passion for hunting and horseback riding her mother was a popular poet who used the pen name Moira O’Neill. MOLLY KEANE (1904–1996) was born Mary Nesta Skrine in County Kildare, Ireland, and raised on her family’s crumbling estate, Ballyrankin, in Wexford. ![]()
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