1A. A. Kelly, Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel: A Study of Her Short Stories, New York: Barnes & Noble,1980, p. 47.
2Patricia K. Meszaros, "Woman as Artist:The Fiction of Mary Lavin," Critique 24. 1 (1982), pp. 39-40, pp. 43-44, pp. 41-42.
3"Writer at Work: An Interview with Mary Lavin,"St. Stephen's, Trinity Term, 12 ( 1967 ), p. 22
4quoted in Richard F. Peterson, Mary Lavin,Twayne's English Authors Series, 239, Boston :Twayne, 1978, p. 16, p. 143.
5Maurice Harmon, " Mary Lavin: Moralist of the Heart," in Barbara Hayley & Christopher Murray,eds. , Ireland & France A Bountiful Friendship: Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1992, pp. 103 - 123.
7Frank O'Connor, A Short History of Irish Literature, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967, p.229.
8Rachael Sealy Lynch, " The Fabulous Female Form" : The Deadly Erotics of the Male Gaze in Mary Lavin's The House in Clewe Street', in Twentieth - century Literature, 43, 3, 1997 ,p. 329.
9Jeanette Robert Shumaker, "Sacrificial Women in Short Stories by Mary Lavin and Edna O'Brien",in Studies in Short Fiction, 32. 2, 1995, p. 185.
