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Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever: A Poem
 

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Poetry

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1989-00-00 Raven Arts Press  

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Blurb: 
Sebastian Barry"s poem Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever is set against the religious divides in Ireland. Fanny, a Quaker and on her way to marry a Catholic lithographer in Cork City, is betraying not only her faith, but the sexual restraints of Protestantism. Whether a Pilgrim"s Progress or a commentary on the ephemeral nature of sexual desire, the relentless imagery creates a thicket of hopes and temptations for the young woman.