B[ridget] G. MacCarthy

Life
1904-1993; ed. Cork, and London Univ., 1936; appt. lecturer in English at at Cork University; issued The Female Pen (1944) and The Later Women Novelists (1947), a two-volume study of women writers' contribution to English novel, 1621-1818; also ed. Poems of Terence MacSwiney (1944) and a collection on child welfare (1944).

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Works
Criticism,
The Psychology of Genius: Studies in Browning” [diss.] (London UP 1936), vii-x, 144pp.; ed., Despite Fools' Laughter: Poems by Terence Joseph Macswiney (Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son 1944), xvi, 74pp., front. port. [19 cm.]; The Female Pen: Women Writers: Their Contribution to the English Novel, 1621-1744 (Cork UP 1944; rep. 1945, 1946), 288pp.; The Later Women Novelists, 1744-1818 ( Cork UP 1947), 296pp., and Do [jointly] as Janet M. Todd, ed., The Female Pen: Women Writers and Novelists 1621-1818 [vols. in 1] ( Cork UP 1994), xxiv, 530pp.

Drama, The Whip Hand: A Comedy in Three Acts (Duffy 1943; 3 rd imp. 1945), 72pp. Miscellaneous, ed., Some Problems of Child Welfare [University and Labour Series, 6] (Cork UP 1945), v. 129pp.

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