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<i>Molly Bawn</i> (novel)

Molly Bawn (novel)

1878 novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

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]

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