Letters to Molly: John Millington Synge to Maire O'Neill, 1906-1909

by J.M. Synge

Book Overview

When John Millington Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease, of which he was to die in three years. Synge had already achieved recognition as a playwright--translations of two of his plays had been performed in Berlin and Prague--and he was codirector, with Yeats and Lady Gregory, of the Irish National Theatre Society. Allgood had started her acting career the year before,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674528336
• ISBN13: 9780674528338
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.3"