Mary MacCarthy

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Mary MacCarthy with son Michael in 1915 (Photo by Ottoline Morrell )

Mary (Molly) MacCarthy , born Mary Warre-Cornish , (born August 1882 in Lynton , Devon , † December 29, 1953 in Hampton ) was a British writer associated with the Bloomsbury Group .

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Gravestone of Desmond and Mary MacCarthy

Mary Warre-Cornish was the daughter of the writer Francis Warre Warre-Cornish (1839-1916) and Blanche Ritchie (1848-1922). Her nickname was Molly . In August 1906 she married the journalist Desmond MacCarthy , with whom she had two sons, Michael and Dermod, and a daughter, Rachel.

Molly, like her husband, was active in the Bloomsbury Group. She coined the term "Bloomsberries" for its members and in 1920 founded the "Bloomsbury Memoir Club", which existed until 1964. She sent out invitations to twelve selected members with the intention of reuniting the members who had been scattered after the First World War and to present their writings and autobiographies in the circle of friends. Members included Virginia and Leonard Woolf , Vanessa and Clive Bell , EM Forster , Duncan Grant , Roger Fry and John Maynard Keynes . She described her Victorian childhood in the title A Nineteenth Century Childhood published in 1924 .

The couple's daughter, Rachel, married the biographer David Cecil .

Mary and Desmond MacCarthy are buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge .

Publications

  • A Pier and a Band (1918)
  • A Nineteenth Century Childhood (1924)
  • Fighting Fitzgerald and Other Papers (1930)
  • Handicaps: Six Studies (1936)
  • The Festival, Etc. (1937)

literature

  • Hugh and Mirabel Cecil: Clever hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: a biography . Gollancz, London 1990, ISBN 0-575-03622-2
  • Gillies Dostaler: Keynes And His Battles . Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-85898-266-3 , p. 44 (online)
  • Todd Avery: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: Bloomsberries . Cecil Woolf, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-907286-08-7
  • SP Rosenbaum, James M. Haule: The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club . Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-137-36035-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Gillies Dostaler: Keynes And His Battles , p. 44
  2. ↑ Kathrin Hughes: The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club by SP Rosenbaum and James M Haule , theguardian.com, January 23, 2014, accessed February 22, 2014
personal data
SURNAME MacCarthy, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warre-Cornish, Mary (maiden name); MacCarthy, Molly (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and member of the Bloomsbury Group
DATE OF BIRTH August 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynton , Devon
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1953
Place of death Hampton