Emily Lawless, Grania

Catherine Smith (Other)
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Grania

, Lawless’s third Irish novel, has a simple plot made vivid by the complex psychology of its eponymous protagonist, and the intense evocations of lifestyle, landscape, and weather of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, off Ireland’s west coast.

Grania

was first published in 1894 in London, by Smith, Elder, and Co., and was favourably reviewed by the

Spectator

,

Athenaeum

,

Bookman

, and

Nation

, among others. The

United Ireland

remarked that there was “nothing to equal this in Irish literature” (qtd. in Hansson 72-3); the poet and man of letters Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote that “it is one of the books about which there can be but one opinion among all readers above the intellectual and moral level of a chimpanzee” (qtd. in Sichel 85). For Yeats, Lawless’s “imperfect…

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