2 Books by Elaine Crowley
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Overview: Crowley was born in Ireland, but spent most of her adult life in Wales. She is best known for her novels Dreams of Other Days, The Young Wives and a Family Cursed, all written during her latter years. She also wrote a memoir of her childhood, A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s. She was married and had six children, according to "about the author" blurbs in several of her novels. She died in Swansea.
Genre: Historical|Coming of Age|Cultural Ireland
Cowslips and Chainies:
Cowslips and Chainies is a poignant memoir of childhood in 1930s and early ’40s Dublin. Best-selling novelist Elaine Crowley’s account of tenement life is by turns hilarious and intensely sad. Her beloved, consumptive father — generous, handsome and fickle — works at the local undertakers. Her proud, resourceful mother, struggling with privation, alternates slaps with kisses in a turbulent relationship with young Nella. Through the eyes of a natural storyteller, we enjoy scenes from a receding past vividly enacted: the teeming life of the Iveagh Market; the street-games and domestic strife; the stratagems for survival among pawnbrokers and money-lenders. We share in Crowley’s wide-eyed witness of a pre-school plot to murder the neighbour’s toddler, the excitement of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress, the trauma of leaving the Liberties for a Corporation house on the city fringe, attempts at sex education thwarted by nuns, her first job in the sewing factory at the age…
Technical Virgins:
In her best-selling first volume of autobiography, Cowslips and Chainies, Elaine Crowley remembered her childhood in 1930s Dublin with great warmth and poignance. In this delightful sequel she recalls her years as a young woman serving in the British army ATS after the Second World War. This is a memoir of leaving disease-ridden Dublin for a world she imagined to be a Tír na nOg of the young and healthy; of being a ‘Paddy’ in England; and of passionate friendships and romances. With her inimitable novelist’s eye for detail, Crowley weaves a fascinating tapestry of her years as a ‘technical virgin’, coloured by vivid descriptions of army rations (inedible), fashion (Maidenform bras, the miseries of the ATS uniform), social trends and sexual mores. Crowley re-creates a vanished world that will touch a chord in all who were once young. ‘The secret of her success lies in the unaffected Irish warm-heartedness of her writing’ – The Irish Times
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