Title
Quarton, Marjorie
Description
Bibliographic Dictionary Entry
Date
1930
Creator
O'Toole, Tina
Source
Munster Women Writers Project, University College Cork
Publisher
Women in Irish Society Project, University College Cork
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Coverage
Munster, Ireland, 1800-2000
Format
Text
Language
en
Type
Text
Subject
Women, Writers, Munster
Contributor
O'Toole, Tina
Birth Date
1930
Birthplace
Nenagh, Co Tipperary
Biographical Text
Marjorie Quarton was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary in 1930 and educated in Dublin. She is a farmer but has given considerable time to her writing career which has focussed on many varying interests, including novels, memoirs, books on dogs, humorous books, children's writing, antiques and editorial work. Her first novel, Corporal Jack (1987) ws serialised on BBC Radio 4 and appeared in paperback, large print, talking book (1991), audio book ( 1997) and a French translation is being prepared. Her next novel, No Harp Like My Own (1988) also received popular acclaim and has been translated into German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish. In 1989 she wrote Breakfast the Night Before: Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer which was a best-seller in Ireland and was reprinted twice. It has also been anthologised in European countries and Japan. A completely new updated edition appeared in 2000. Her humorous writings (three published works) are based on dogs and a fourth one is currently appearing in serial form bi-monthly in WSN magazine in the UK. She has collaborated on a number of publications and has had many stories published and broadcast on radio. She wrote regularly over ten years for the Farmers' Journal, and contributed a column to the Irish Field for six years. She wrote for local papers as well as occasional features for the national press and magazines in the UK. She teaches creative writing, gives lectures and is a member of PEN and the Writers' Union. She is working on a collection of 300-year old recipes handed down by one of her foremothers which she plans to publish with some of her own material. [Smithwick]
Writing Genre
Novels
Children's Writing
Memoirs
Journalism