Mary Manning
Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
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| Intro | Irish novelist, playwright and film critic. | |
| Places | Ireland | |
| was | Writer Critic Playwright Film critic Novelist | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | |
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| Birth | 30 June 1905, Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, Ireland | |
| Death | 27 June 1999Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (aged 94 years) | |
| Star sign | Cancer |
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Mary Manning Howe Adams (30 June 1905 – 27 June 1999) was an Irish novelist, playwright and film critic.
Biography
Born and raised in Dublin, Mary Manning got her theatre training in Sara Allgood's teaching class in the Abbey Theatre. She had gone to school in Morehampton House and Alexandra College, Dublin. She also worked as a writer for the Gate Theatre. She adapted the novel Guests of the Nation for a film directed by Denis Johnston. Manning also helped found the Dublin Film Society in 1930. She worked as a film critic and co-founded the Gate Theatre arts magazine Motley in 1932.
In 1935 Manning moved to Boston where she married Harvard Law School professor Mark De Wolfe Howe. They had three daughters Fanny, Susan and Helen. When her husband died Manning returned to Dublin in 1967 and lived in Monkstown, County Dublin for another ten years. During this time Manning wrote for various publications such as Hibernia, The Irish Times. She later returned to live in Cambridge.
Manning was a founder of the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and worked as drama director at Radcliffe College during World War II.
After Manning returned to the US she married Faneuil Adams of Boston, Massachusetts in 1980
Works
Plays
- Go, Lovely Rose
- Youth's The Season...?
- Storm over Wicklow
- Happy Family
- The Voices of Shem
Books
- Mount Venus
- Lovely People
- The Last Chronicles of Ballyfungus