Mary MacCarthy

Mary ( Molly ) MacCarthy, born as Mary Warre - Cornish ( born August 1882 in Lynton, Devon, † December 29, 1953 in Hampton) was a British writer who was associated with the Bloomsbury Group.

Life and work

Mary Warre Cornish was the daughter of the writer Francis Warre Warre - Cornish (1839-1916) and Blanche Ritchie ( 1848-1922 ). Her nickname was Molly. In August 1906, she married the journalist Desmond MacCarthy, with whom she had two sons, Michael and Dermod, and a daughter, Rachel.

Molly was like her husband active in the Bloomsbury Group. They coined the term " Bloom Berries " for their members and founded in 1920 the pre-existing 1964 " Bloomsbury Memoir Club". They sent invitations to twelve members selected with the intention of the scattered after the First World War members to reunite and represent their writings and autobiographies of friends. Among the members, for example, were Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, EM Forster, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry and John Maynard Keynes. Your Victorian childhood she described in the title, published in 1924 A Nineteenth Century Childhood.

The daughter of the couple, Rachel, married to biographer David Cecil.

Mary and Desmond MacCarthy are buried in the cemetery " Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground " in Cambridge.

Publications

• A Pier and a Band (1918 )
• A Nineteenth Century Childhood ( 1924)
• Fighting Fitzgerald and Other Papers (1930 )
• Handicaps: Six Studies (1936 )
• The Festival, Etc.. (1937 )