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Nicholas Taylor-Collins

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Tag: consent

  • Anne Enright’s ‘Actress’ (part 2): the age of consent

    Anne Enright’s ‘Actress’ (part 2): the age of consent

    In my first blog on Anne Enright’s Actress (Jonathan Cape, 2020), I connected it with the late Irish poet Eavan Boland (1944–2020) through the search for a female genealogy. Or, in simpler terms, both Norah in Actress and Boland in her prose and poetry are looking for their mothers. In this blog, I again read…