Mary (Molly) MacCarthy

Mary MacCarthy (1882–1953) was a British writer, known for her involvement in the "Bloomsbury Group".

Mary MacCarthy was the daughter of the teacher and man-of-letters Francis Warre Warre-Cornish. She was commonly called Molly.

In 1906 she married the literary critic Desmond MacCarthy, with whom she had one daughter, Rachel.

Though prevented by progressive hearing-loss from full participation in group conversation, she was active in the Bloomsbury group, as demonstrated by her formation of its Memoir group and Novel group, and by coining the term "Bloomsberries" to describe its members.

Her sister Cecilia married William Wordsworth Fisher later Admiral. Her daughter Rachel married the biographer David Cecil.

Sources

• The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary, ed. S. P. Rosenbaum (University of Toronto Press, revised edition, 1995).
• Clever hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy: a biography, by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil (Gollancz, 1990).

Selected bibliography

• A Pier and a Band (1918)
• A Nineteenth Century Childhood (1924)
• Fighting Fitzgerald and Other Papers (1930)
• Handicaps: Six Studies (1936)
• The Festival, Etc. (1937)

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Name	Maccarthy, Mary
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Date of birth	1882
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Date of death	1953
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