Heather A. O’Neill, “Interview with Emma Donoghue,” 12 January 2008, www.afterellen.com/people/2008/1/emmadonoghue.
Linda Richards, “Emma Donoghue,” January Magazine, November 2000, www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/donoghue.html.
Judy Stoffman, “Writer has a Deft Touch with Sexual Identities,” Toronto Star, 13 January 2007.
Helen Thompson, “Emma Donoghue,” in Irish Women Writers Speak Out, edited by Caitriona Moloney and Helen Thompson (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002).
Literary Criticism on Emma Donoghue’s Writing
Heather Ingman, Twentiety-Century Fiction by Irish Women: Nation and Gender (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
Jennifer M. Jeffers, The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
Christina Hunt Mahony, Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998).
Maureen E. Mulvihill, “Emma Donoghue,” in Irish Women Writers: An A–Z Guide, edited by Alexander G. Gonzales (Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
Paulina Palmer, Lesbian Gothic (London and New York: Cassell, 1999).
Linden Peach, Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire, and Power (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007).
Rebecca Pelan, Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North and South (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005).
Antoinette Quinn, “New Noises from the Woodshed: The Novels of Emma Donoghue,” in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories, edited by Liam Harte and Michael Parker (London: Macmillan, 2000).
Susan Sellers, Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women’s Fiction (New York: Palgrave, 2001).
Tonie van Marle, “Emma Donoghue,” in Gay and Lesbian Literature, Volume Two, edited by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (Detroit: St James Press, 1998).
Rachel Wingfield, “Lesbian Writers in the Mainstream: Sarah Maitland, Jeanette Winterson and Emma Donoghue,” in Beyond Sex and Romance: The Politics of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction, edited by Elaine Hutton (London: Women’s Press, 1998).
Cultural and Historical Readings
Angela Bourke, et al. (editors), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols. IV—V: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002).
Terry Castle, The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).
Marilyn R. Farwell, Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives (New York: New York University Press, 1996).
Diarmaid Ferriter, Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (London: Profile, 2009).
Alan Hayes and Diane Urquhart (editors), The Irish Women’s History Reader (London: Routledge, 2001).
Kieran Rose, Diverse Communities: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Politics in Ireland (Cork: Cork University Press, 1994).
Christine St. Peter, Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women’s Fiction (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
Ailbhe Smyth (editor), Irish Women’s Studies Reader (Dublin: Attic Press, 1993).
Maryann Valiulis (editor), Gender and Power in Irish History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008).
Éibhear Walshe (editor), Sex, Nation, and Dissent in Irish Writing (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997).
Further Reading in Irish Fiction
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929)
Mary Dorcey, A Noise from the Woodshed (1989)
Jennifer Johnston, The Invisible Worm (1992)
Molly Keane, Devoted Ladies (1934)
Molly Keane, Good Behaviour (1981)
Kate O’Brien, Mary Lavelle (1936)
Kate O’Brien, Land of Spices (1941)
Jamie O’Neill, At Swim Two Boys (2001)
Keith Ridgway, The Parts (2003)
Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship (1999)
Further Reading on Grief and Loss
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (1961)
Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow’s Story: A Memoir (2011)
Nuala O’Faolain, Are You Somebody? (1997)
Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (2005)
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (1992)
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EMMA DONOGHUE is the author of seven novels, including the New York Times bestselling Room. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Canada.
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OTHER BOOKS BY EMMA DONOGHUE
Fiction
Room
The Sealed Letter
Landing
Touchy Subjects
Life Mask
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
Slammerkin
Kissing the Witch
Hood
Stir-fry
Nonfiction
Inseparable
We Are Michael Field
Passions Between Women
Credits
Cover design by Andrea Cardenas
Cover photograph © Natalie Miller/Trevillion Images
Copyright
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Yale University Press for permission to quote from “Little Red Riding Hood,” from Beginning with O, copyright © 1977 by Olga Broumas.
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