“Teresa speaks to poets”: Mystical Experience, Apology and Literary Creation in Kate O’Brien’s Teresa of Ávila

Kate O’Brien’s connection to Spain, and the extent to which it is central to her work, has been widely studied using as background information the eight months she spent in Bilbao working as a governess (1922-23), an experience which inspired her novel Mary Lavelle (1936). However, her biography of...

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Main Author: Pilar Somacarera-Íñigo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses 2020-03-01
Series:Estudios Irlandeses
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Online Access:https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DEF-SOMACARRERA-IÑIGO.pdf