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Ethel Edith Mannin

Female : Novelist, Essayist, Pacifist & Travel Writer. Lived in Connemara. Married J A Porteous 1920, and Reginald Reynolds in 1938
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : London (Irish parents)

Date of Birth : 1900 Date of Death : 1984 Age : 84
All Jarrolds unless stated
1923-1930
Martha
(1923 Leonard Parsons, London) (1929 Jarrolds)
Hunger of the Sea
(1924)
Sounding Brass
(1925)
Pilgrims
(1927)
Green Willow
(1928)
Crescendo
(1929)
Children of the Earth
(1930)
Common Sense and the Child : A Plea for Freedom
(1930)
[Preface written by A S Neill whom Mannin was impressed by. She sent her daughter to Summerhill]
Confessions and Impressions
(1930) - Autobiography

1931-1935
Bruised Wings & Other Stories
(1931 Wright & Brown, London)
Green Figs
(1931)
Ragged Banners : A Novel with an Index
(1931) (1931 Knopf)
The Tinsel Eden & Other Stories
(1931 Wright & Brown)
All Experience
(1932)
Linda Shawn
(1932)
Love's Winnowing
(1932 Wright & Brown)
Dryad
(1933) - ss
Venetian Blinds
(1933)
Forever Wandering
(1934)
Men are Unwise
(1934)
Cactus
(1935)
The Falconer's Voice
(1935) - ss

1936-1940
The Pure Flame
(1936)
South to Samarkand
(1936) (1937 Dutton, NY)
Commonsense and the Adolescent
(1937)
Women Also Dream
(1937)
Rose and Sylvie
(1938)
Darkness My Bride
(1938)
Women and the Revolution
(1938 Secker & Warburg)
Privileged Spectator
(1938 Hutchinson) - Autobiography
Julie
(1940)
Rolling in the Dew
(1940)

1941-1945
Christianity - or Chaos ?
(1941)
Red Rose
(1941)
Captain Moonlight
(1942)
Castles in the Street
(1942 Letchworth)
Commonsense and Morality
(1942)
The Blossoming Bough
(1943)
No More Mimosa
(1943)
Bread and Roses
(1944 Macdonald)
Proud Heaven
(1944)
Lucifer and the Child
(1945)

1946-1950
The Dark Forest
(1946)
Selected Stories
(1946 Maurice Fridberg, Dublin & London)
Comrade O Comrade
(1947)
Connemara Journal
(1947 Westhouse, London) - Elizabeth Rivers
Sounding Brass
(1947)
German Journey
(1948)
Late Have I Loved Thee
(1948)
Every Man A Stranger
(1949)
Jungle Journey
(1950)

1951-1955
Moroccan Music
(1951)
At Sundown, the Tiger
(1951)
The Fields at Evening
(1952)
This Was a Man : Some Memories of Robert Mannin by His Daughter
(1952)
The Wild Swans and Other Tales based on the Ancient Irish
(1952)
Lover Under Another Name
(1953)
So Tiberius
(1954)
Two Studies in Integrity - Gerald Griffin and the Rev. Francis Mahony
(Father Prout) (1954)
Land of the Crested Lion : A Journey Through Modern Burma
(1955)

1956-1960
The Living Lotus
(1956)
The Country of the Sea
(1957)
Pity the Innocent
(1957)
Fragrance of Hyacinths
(1958)
Ann and Peter in Sweden
(1959 Muller)
The Blue-Eyed Boy
(1959 Jarrolds)
Brief Voices
(1959 Hutchinson) - Autobiographical
Ann and Peter in Japan
(1960 Muller)
The Flowery Sword
(1960 Hutchinson)

1961-1965
Sabishisa
(1961 Hutchinson)
Ann & Peter in Austria
(1962 Muller)
Curfew at Dawn
(1962 Hutchinson)
With Will Adams Through Japan
(1962 Muller)
A Lance for the Arabs
(1963 Hutchinson)
The Road to Beersheba
(1963 Hutchinson)
Aspects of Egypt : Some Travels in the United Arab Republic
(1964 Hutchinson)
Bavarian Story
(1964 Arrow Books, London)
Rebel's Ride
(1964 Hutchinson)
The Burning Bush
(1965 Hutchinson)
The Lovely Land : The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
(1965 Hutchinson)

1966-1970
Loneliness : A Study of the Human Condition
(1966 Hutchinson)
The Night and its Homing
(1966 Hutchinson)
An American Journey
(1967 Hutchinson)
The Lady and the Mystic
(1967 Hutchinson 25/-)
Bitter Babylon
(1968 Hutchinson)
The Midnight Street
(1969 Hutchinson)
Practitioners of Love
(1969 Hutchinson)
The Saga of Sammycat
(1969 Pergamon)
England at Large
(1970 Hutchinson)

After 1971
My Cat Sammy
(1971 Michael Joseph)
Young in the Twenties
(1971 Hutchinson)
The Curious Adventures of Major Fosdick
(1972 Hutchinson)
England My Adventure
(1972 Hutchinson)
Sounding Brass
(1972 Hutchinson)
Mission to Beirut
(1973 Hutchinson)
Stories from My Life
(1973 Hutchinson)
Kildoon
(1974 Hutchinson)
An Italian Journey
(1975 Hutchinson)
Pity the Innocent
(1975 Hutchinson)
The Late Miss Guthrie
(1976 Hutchinson)
Sunset Over Dartmoor : A Final Chapter of Autobiography
(1977 Hutchinson)