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Elaine Crowley (author)

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Elaine Crowley
BornHelena Bridget Crowley
1927
Ireland
Died2011
Swansea, Wales
OccupationAuthor

Elaine Crowley (1927 – February 2011), born Helena Bridget Crowley, was an Irish author.

Crowley was born in Ireland, but spent most of her adult life in Wales. She is best known for her novels Dreams of Other Days, The Young Wives and a Family Cursed, all written during her latter years. She also wrote a memoir of her childhood, A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s (1996).[1]

She was married and had six children, according to "about the author" blurbs in several of her novels. She died in Swansea.

References

  1. ^ Elaine Crowley, A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930s (Soho Press 1996). ISBN 9781569471371