Letters to Molly - John Millington Synge to Maire O’Neill, 1906–1909

When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease and would die in three years. Seldom able to be alone together, they wrote letters almost daily. Synge's letters-hers do not survive-are a poignant record of a love that was foredoomed.

About the author

Ann Saddlemyer is Professor of English Literature, University of Victoria.

Summary

When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin’s disease and would die in three years. Seldom able to be alone together, they wrote letters almost daily. Synge’s letters—hers do not survive—are a poignant record of a love that was foredoomed.

Product details

• Authors: J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge
• Assisted by: Ann Saddlemyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1984
• EAN: 9780674528338
• ISBN: 978-0-674-52833-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Weight: 771 g
• Illustrations: 2 line illustrations, 14 halftones, 1 map
• Series: The Belknap Press; Belknap Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies