Molly Bawn (novel)

Molly Bawn
AuthorMargaret Wolfe Hungerford
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publication date
1878
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint

Molly Bawn is an 1878 novel by the Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. In 1916 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title starring Alma Taylor.[1]

Molly Bawn, Hungerford's best-known novel, is the story of a frivolous, petulant Irish girl. She is a flirt who arouses her lover's jealousy and naively ignores social conventions. Mrs. Hungerford and this book are mentioned in chapter 18 of James Joyce's Ulysses:

...Molly bawn she gave me by Mrs Hungerford on account of the name I don't like books with a Molly in them like that one he brought me about the one from Flanders...

Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ Goble p.871
  2. ^ Hungerford, MW (1878). Molly Bawn ISBN 1537606069
  3. ^ "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". phrases.org.uk. The Phrase Finder. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Margaret Hungerford Quotes and Quotations". Famous Quotes and Authors. Retrieved 9 August 2013.

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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