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Quotes from interview in Irish women writers speak out by Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson — Emma Donoghue

born 1969 Canada

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Looking back, I can now see that Hood is part of a small but interesting body of lesbian novels of loss and bereavement (by people like Sarah Schulman, Marion Douglas, Sarah Von Arsdale, Carol Anshaw) written in the 1990s. We were catching up with the boys, perhaps; gay men really took the lead in writing honest and beautiful books about mourning.

interview in Irish women writers speak out by Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emma Donoghue (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.