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Mary, Mary

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First published: 1912
Pages: 117

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This was James Stephens's first novel, published in Dublin as The Charwoman's Daughter and in America under this title. It follows Mary Makebelieve, a sheltered sixteen-year-old who lives with her hardworking mother in a cramped Dublin tenement and fills her days wandering the city and daydreaming. When two very different men begin to court her, a burly policeman and a gentler young clerk, Mary's imagined world collides with the practical questions of money and marriage. Stephens writes with a light, whimsical touch and genuine affection for the poor of Dublin, giving a slender coming-of-age story an unexpected charm and warmth.

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James Stephens

James Stephens (1880-1950) was an Irish poet and novelist central to the Irish Literary Revival. Largely self-taught, he won fame with The Crock of Gold and Irish Fairy Tales, retelling old Gaelic myth in his own voice. A friend of James Joyce, he also wrote lyric poetry and later broadcast for the BBC.