![]() ![]() In 1981 Good Behaviour came out under her own name the manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was lent to a visitor, the actress Peggy Ashcroft, who encouraged Keane to publish it. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. ![]() Between 19, she wrote 11 novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. She used her married name for her later novels, several of which ( Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. ![]() She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare). ![]()
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