What is Mary Beckett?
'''Mary Beckett''' (1926-2013) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] author.<ref name=telegraphobit>{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mary-beckett-literary-world-mourning-loss-of-top-woman-writer-29745537.html|title=Mary Beckett: Literary world mourning loss of top woman writer|last=Ferguson|first=Amanda|date=12 November 2013|accessdate=11 October 2014}}</ref> She was born in [[Belfast]] in [[Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/irishwomenwriter0000unse|year=2006|editor=Alexander G. Gonzalez|publisher=Greenwood|pages=[https://archive.org/details/irishwomenwriter0000unse/page/14 14]–17|isbn=978-0313328831}}</ref> She used to work for [[BBC Northern Ireland]], where she wrote plays for the [[radio]]. She also wrote [[short story|short stories]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Matthews|first=Kelley|date=Summer 2014|title=A Belfast Woman: Shame, Guilt, and Gender in Mary Beckett's Short Stories of the 1950s|journal=New Hibernia Review|publisher=University of St. Thomas|volume=18|issue=2|pages=97–109|doi=10.1353/nhr.2014.0031|s2cid=143977948}}</ref> She also worked as a teacher. She was married and had five children. She stopped publishing writing until the 1980s, when she wrote ''The Belfast Woman''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pelan|first=Rebecca|title=Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North And South|publisher=Syracuse University Press|date=2006|pages=55–56|isbn=978-0815630593}}</ref> In addition to short stories, she also wrote children's books and one novel. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://articles.latimes.com/1989-03-05/news/ga-681_1_emergency-rooms 1989 LA Times review of ''A Belfast Woman''] {{DEFAULTSORT:Beckett, Mary}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from Belfast]] [[Category:Children's writers]]