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	glbtq >> literature >> Donoghue, Emma
		Born in Dublin in 1969, the youngest child of fiercely literary parents, Frances and Denis Donoghue, Emma Donoghue earned an undergraduate degree from University College, Dublin, in 1990, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1997, with a dissertation on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction.
		Donoghue is also the author of several plays, including I Know My Own Heart: A Lesbian Regency Romance (1993), Ladies and Gentlemen (1996), and an adaptation of Kissing the Witch, which premiered in San Francisco in 2000.
		Emma Donoghue's contributions to scholarly literature are equally notable.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/donoghue_e.html (723 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Looking for the Limelight
		Irish writer Emma Donoghue plumbs this territory in Life Mask, her mesmerizing new novel, which at 650 pages is like one of those great 19th-century tomes that you're sad to see come to an end.
		Donoghue recognized that tantalizing trifle of information as literary gold and developed it into a Dickensian tale of a penniless child whose intense longing for a red ribbon led to a life of dissolution and crime.
		Donoghue's story focuses on a less historically prominent threesome that moved in the same elite circles: the fantastically rich and ugly Lord Derby (for whom the horse race is named); his longtime inamorata Eliza Farren; and the widow and accomplished sculptor Anne Damer.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A16439-2004Oct7?language=printer (849 words)

	Amazon.de: Hood: English Books: Emma Donoghue
		Donoghue's unsentimental examination of the complex relationship between the two women is a pleasure, but the story line, lacking dramatic tension, ultimately sags under the weight of Pen's wordiness.
		Cara's sudden death at 30 leaves bereaved Penelope shocked, grieving, reliving their 14-year relationship, which Donoghue covers in a series of overlapping flashbacks, from the time the two met in convent school in the late seventies to the early nineties, when they lived together in Cara's father's home.
		Donoghue paints a marvelous portrait of Pen O'Grady, a woman who must come to terms with the loss of her lover of 14 years.
	www.amazon.de /Hood-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0060171103 (1065 words)

	Life Mask by Emma Donoghue: Reviews
		Donoghue's deployment of 18th Century lore and detail is admirably compendious, and few who penetrate the book will be able to put it down before its enthralling tales end.
		Donoghue, who is also a playwright and historian, has alighted on another terrific story, and she pulls off a dazzling feat of choreography in setting it all in motion.
		Donoghue weaves a story filled with such attention to detail that it easily captures the essence of the time--power, intrigue, dirty politics, and erotic liaisons.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/donoghueemma/lifemask (518 words)

	Emma Donoghue - Writings
		Donoghue's first book is a groundbreaking survey of printed texts on lesbian themes (trial records, newspapers, medical tracts, poems, novels, plays, etc) that were published in English between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century.
		Donoghue’s anthology brings famous names like Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich together with a host of unknown and forgotten women (not all lesbians, by any means) writing love poems to women in English all across the globe, since the 1650s.
		Donoghue's adaptation of her fairy-tale book of the same name (1997) was commissioned by and premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre on 9 June 2000.
	www.emmadonoghue.com /writings.htm (5806 words)

	Characters pulled from life's hat - interview with Emma Donoghue: ThePost.ie
		Donoghue's mother is far from the only real person to become tangled up in her prose.
		Donoghue began work on the collection in 1992, sneaking away from her other fiction and academic work to do research into the lives of her subjects.
		Donoghue remains one of a very small number of openly gay Irish writers -- and, to some extent, everything she has ever done has been overshadowed by this fact.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2002/07/14/story739650828.asp (1041 words)

	BookPage Interview October 2004: Emma Donoghue
		Despite having loving family and friends, Donoghue says there was always a "what if they find out?" fear that hung over her youth.
		Donoghue's empathy for the characters gives the novel added depth, but it is her love of research that recreates the time period with astonishing detail.
		Donoghue immersed herself in the turbulent decade of 1787 to 1797, an era of extravagant balls, social intrigues, cockfighting and, perhaps most of all, cutthroat politics.
	www.bookpage.com /0410bp/emma_donoghue.html (670 words)

	"The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits" by Emma Donoghue - Salon
		The only problem with Emma Donoghue's collection, "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits," is that it's hard to stop yourself from skipping to the end of each story.
		There readers will find a note from Donoghue explaining the historical background of the juicy tale they've just read, whether it's the sailor who was drugged into marrying a spinster or the woman who, yes, faked the births of over a dozen dead rabbits.
		Donoghue animates these obscure pieces of the past with often humorous dialogue and surprising emotional invention.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/05/23/donoghue/index.html (447 words)

	A passion for fineries proved her undoing
		Even though the novel is rough in patches, author Emma Donoghue, an Irish Canadian writer, was right to move from critical, historic works (she has a doctorate in British fiction from Cambridge) to the novel, this her first.
		Donoghue's language hacks and bristles with the doleful realities of this historic era, one she has clearly studied in great depth.
		Donoghue stumbles into her only bit of narrative trouble in the last two- thirds of the novel when Mary moves from London to the English-Welsh countryside to escape a bounty hunter.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/08/RV134599.DTL (750 words)

	Borders - Feature - Between Discovery and Invention: Emma Donoghue on Historical Fiction
		As she expands upon this mildly salacious historical fragment, Donoghue tells a beautifully nuanced and emotionally resonant love story, one that explores love in several permutations, from passionate friendship to public scandal.
		Since publishing Slammerkin in 2001, Donoghue has been excavating the past for stories that speak to the present, and, as she explains in this interview, Life Mask is her first work of fiction in which she draws explicit parallels between historical episodes and current events.
		Emma Donoghue: Well, I'm very glad that historical fiction has emerged from the dreadful closet it was locked in.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=donoghue2 (1659 words)

	Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 186049899X
		Emma Donoghue has taken the scant facts of Mary's short life in the 1760s and given her heart, flesh, guts and humour in this fine tale.
		That said, Emma Donoghue's gifts as a storyteller are considerable: her unsparing accounts of small and large events, a wealth of detail and a wonderfully rich and fluent language makes this a vivid and moving slice from the underbelly of 18th-century life.--Ruth Petrie
		Donoghue takes scraps of the intriguing true story of Mary Saunders, a servant girl who murdered her mistress in 1763, and fashions from them an intelligent and mesmerizing historical novel.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/186049899X (1160 words)

	Interview \| Emma Donoghue
		On the day I meet her, Emma Donoghue is a vision of color and vibrancy.
		And as compelling as Donoghue's story is, the details of her setting are awesome.
		Although to actually pick up a cleaver and murder someone was not typical behavior, [Mary's] feelings and longing for a bit of luxury, a bit of freedom, a bit of sensuality and her rage against those who seemed to be keeping her in her place, I'd say they were very typical feelings.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/donoghue.html (3585 words)

	Amazon.com: Slammerkin: Books: Emma Donoghue
		Donoghue takes scraps of the intriguing true story of Mary Saunders, a servant girl who murdered her mistress in 1763, and fashions from them an intelligent and mesmerizing historical novel.
		Readers may feel both sympathetic to and angry with Mary, who questions whether hers is the lot of all women, but whose anesthetized spirit leads to her rash action.
		Donoghue's characterizations are excellent, and her brutal imagery and attention to language capture the spirit of the time with vital precision.
	www.amazon.com /Slammerkin-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0156007479 (929 words)

	JS Online: Novel draws on historic liaisons in time of revolution
		Emma Donoghue's captivating novel "Slammerkin" (2001) demonstrated her deft skills in re-creating a historic period with exquisite details and a set of intriguing characters.
		Donoghue takes a lush, expansive view of the "tiny universe of rules and whispers" in this lengthy expose of personal dalliances, theatrical shenanigans and political chicanery.
		There are times when Donoghue seems to slip into quirky out-of-the-age phrasing when she notes the "uncertain times" of revolution abroad and rebellion at home are filled with "terrorism," "weapons of mass destruction," and the need for "homeland security."
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/sep04/256147.asp?format=print (396 words)

	LIFE MASK - Emma Donoghue - Penguin Books
		When the working-class actress begins a deep friendship with the artistocratic widow Anne Damer, a sculptor and rumoured Sapphist, the consequent scandal threatens to topple Eliza from her precarious position and destroy the lives of all three.
		In an England overshadowed by the French Revolution, shaken by terrorism and a repressive government, Emma Donoghue leads her characters in an intricate minuet of public ambition and private passion.
		‘Emma Donoghue is a scrupulous researcher with a knack for unearthing telling details and bring them to life… [a] clever, enjoyable novel’ – SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9781860499807,00.html (341 words)

	scribblingwoman: Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
		However, by the end of the text this no longer seems like a fault; Donoghue addresses the issue with an almost oblique suggestiveness that surprises.
		The scenes in which Damer is targeted for being a "Tommy" are harrowing, and her growing self-realisation is nicely done.
		Donoghue is not a stylist, but this novel has other strengths that only increase as it progresses.
	www.unbsj.ca /arts/english/jones/mt/archives/2005/03/life_mask_by_emma_donoghue.html (598 words)

	Eye - History and mystery - 10.28.04
		Donoghue is a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pendantic of pedants, while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern.
		Donoghue moves with confidence from intimate moments among women in salons and dressing-rooms to dramatic events in the outside world, such as the Foxite conspiracy and the mass terror of the French Revolution.
		Emma Donoghue reads with Avery Corman, Margaret Drabble and Ha Jin at the International Festival of Authors Friday, Oct 29 at 8pm in the Premiere Dance Theatre.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.28.04/arts/books.html (975 words)

	Eye - Ridiculously promiscuous - 10.17.02
		Emma Donoghue is eye's pick for this year's International Festival of Authors' biggest discovery-in-waiting
		Though she receives invitations to read and be writer-in-residence at any number of schools and libraries around the country, Emma Donoghue is still a writer crouching under the cultural radar.
		Emma Donoghue is not just, like the above-mentioned writers-in-development, a writer to watch; she's a writer to read, her work more comparable to Barbara Gowdy's recent writing than to her more immediate contemporaries'.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.17.02/arts/ifoa.html (706 words)

	Bookslut \| The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories by Emma Donoghue
		Over the last ten years or so, Emma Donoghue has come across some of these small snippets of history and felt inspired to fill in the blank spaces with a short story followed by the true story and her sources.
		She attempts to unearth these buried lives of women, cripples, slaves, and other undesirables who were so infrequently able to tell their own tales.
		Emma Donoghue has written a great collection of short stories, and I wish she would write another volume of these forgotten histories.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2002_12_000433.php (461 words)

	Knitting Circle Emma Donoghue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was born as the youngest of eight children in a literary family in Dublin.
		She fell in love with one of the other school girls at the age of 14 and began to think of herself as a lesbian.
		Emma Donoghue moved to Canada in 1998 and has grappled with the bureaucracy to qualify for humanitarian and compassionate exemption in Canadian immigration legislation.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/emmadonoghue.html (954 words)

	Emma Donoghue, Life Mask / Ross King, Domino / Christopher Whyte, The Cloud Machinery / Wesley Stace, Misfortune
		Of the four, Emma Donoghue's Life Mask provides the richest historical detail, and for that reason alone would be the one I'd recommend most enthusiastically to anyone who asked for my opinion.
		As Donoghue explains in her notes at the end of the book, these and most of her secondary characters are based on historical persons.
		Donoghue is particularly skilled at bringing this culture to life -- we spend quite a lot of time with the members of the company and learn a lot about the ups and downs of the theatre business.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_va_gender_omni.html (1888 words)

	Emma Donoghue's "Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins"
		Donoghue's book of fairy tales succeeds with me as an adult, succeeds so wonderfully that the writer in me wants to know how that can be.
		In Donoghue's world, the servant of the princess can switch places with her because (a) she's physically and psychologically stronger than the princess and (b) neither of them is essentially a servant or a princess.
		The magic in Donoghue's tales lies in her taking such familiar, worn stories and illuminating the previously invisible that, in her hands, seems always to have been present, in the background, overshadowed by the masculinist agenda that characterizes the old versions.
	ltimmel.home.mindspring.com /kissing.html (2314 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Rabbits' jumps into fertile stories of women (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 17 short stories, Donoghue spins imaginative tales from peculiar incidents in the history of the British Isles.
		She culled these historically based fictions from what she calls the "flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years" — surgical case notes, a painting, a plague ballad.
		Donoghue's gift for period dialogue and richly textured language brings these artists, vicars and young girls to life.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/2002-05-16-rabbits.htm (370 words)

	Magic Theatre retells 'Beauty' tale
		And the same holds true for several of the other fairy tales re-imagined by Donoghue in the script she adapted from her novel of the same name.
		It begins promisingly as Donoghue's three witch-narrators gather in the pregnant shadows of Robert Ted Anderson's lights to the ghostly strains of David Molina's Irish fiddle-and-pipes score on the craggy outcrops of J.B. Wilson's haunted forest grotto set, its central cave all overgrown with gnarled branches and mossy netting.
		These are witches as wise women and herbal healers who live on the fringes of settled communities, visited by fearful villagers whenever they need a cure or curse (and, presumably, burned by them in frequent outbreaks of religious fervor).
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/06/13/STYLE13741.dtl&type=printable (862 words)

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