Edna O'Brien
(1930-), Novelist, short story writer and playwrightSitter in 9 portraits
Novelist, short-story writer and playwright, O'Brien was born in Tuamgraney, County Clare and moved to London in 1959. Based on her work as a reader for Hutchinson, she was commissioned to write a novel. The Country Girls (1960) was followed by The Lonely Girl (1962, reprinted as The Girl with the Green Eyes) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). The novels, feted for illuminating sexual and social matters, were banned in Ireland. Later works include The High Road (1988) and House of Splendid Isolation (1994).
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1971
NPG x14169
by Fay Godwin
bromide print, 1972
NPG x12938
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, November 1973
NPG x88222
by Mark Gerson
bromide print, 1988
NPG x35721
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