About Mary Norris:
Mary Norris was born in 1932 in Sneem, South Kerry, Ireland. She was sent to a Magdalene laundry or asylum run by the Good Shepherd Order in Cork, Ireland, in 1949 at the age of 16. She spent two years there. The laundry closed down in 1994.
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
Mary NorrisWas it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?
Mary Norris