Marjorie Quarton Explained

Marjorie Quarton
Birth Name:	Marjorie Smethwick
Birth Date:	1930
Birth Place:	Nenagh, County Tipperary
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	Irish

Marjorie Quarton (born 1930) is an Irish novelist.

Life and work

Born Marjorie Smethwick to Standish Smethwick and Dolly Webb in 1930 in Nenagh, County Tipperary.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} She was educated in Dublin. Quarton did not start her writing career until she was in her 50s.^[5] She has written novels, memoirs, children's books and newspaper articles.^{[6] [1] [7]}

Quarton was a horse, sheep and cattle breeder and also worked for the National Council for the Blind of Ireland.^{[8] [7] [9]} She has written on dogs, particularly sheepdogs. She is a member of PEN and resides near Nenagh.^{[7] [2] [3] [4]}

Bibliography

• Corporal Jack (London: Collins, 1987)
• No Harp Like My Own (London: Collins, 1988)
• Renegade (London: André Deutsch, 1991)
• Breakfast The Night Before : Recollections of an Irish Horse-Dealer (André Deutsch, 1989)
• Saturday's Child (André Deutsch, 1993)
• The Cow Watched the Battle (Dublin: Poolebeg, 1990)
• The Other Side of the Island (Dublin: Poolbeg, 1991)
• Longshot, No Harp Like My Own, Trial, The Flight Of Flamingo by Dick Francis, Marjorie Quarton, Clifford Irving, Elizabeth Darrell, (Reader's Digest, 1991)

Further reading

• Book: Elizabeth Grubgeld . Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative . January 2004 . Syracuse University Press . 978-0-8156-3016-6 . 13–.
• Web site: Nenagh CBS Primary: February 2015 . Nenagh CBS . 10 November 2016.
• Web site: Bealtaine Festival . Bealtaine . 10 November 2016.
• Web site: A lone woman in a mans world . Independent. 10 November 2016.
• Web site: Book Launches. Independent . 10 November 2016.
• Web site: Marjories second breakfast helping! . Independent . 25 November 2000 . 10 November 2016.
• Web site: Moving through the fair in search of some animal magnetism . Irish times. 16 October 2009 . Michael Harding . 10 November 2016.
• Web site: Transition year comes of age in Tipperary . Irish times . 19 March 1996 . Anne Byrne . 10 November 2016.

Notes and References

1. Web site: An Irishwoman's Diary on a strange meeting near Ypres in 1915 . Irish times . 10 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161229142415/http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishwoman-s-diary-on-a-strange-meeting-near-ypres-in-1915-1.2303680 . 29 December 2016.
2. Web site: Marjorie Quarton . Ricorso . 10 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161229142631/http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/q/Quarton_M/life.htm . December 29, 2016.
3. Web site: Marjorie Quarton . Irish writers-online . 10 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161229142827/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/quarton-marjorie/ . December 29, 2016.
4. Web site: Marjorie Quarton - The Lilliput Press . 10 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161229142948/https://www.lilliputpress.ie/author_post/marjorie-quarton. 29 December 2016.
5. Web site: DUBLIN DUCHESS: Review: Part-Time Writer: Notes and Reflections by Marjorie Quarton. 10 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161229143130/http://dublinduchess.blogspot.ie/2013/01/review-part-time-writer-notes-and.html. 29 December 2016.
6. Web site: Two Nenagh authors launch latest works – Tipperary Star . Tipperarystar.ie . 2 October 2015 . November 10, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161229143240/http://www.tipperarystar.ie/news/arts-culture-entertainment/166739/Two-Nenagh-authors-launch-latest-works.html . 29 December 2016.
7. Book: Colman Andrews . The Country Cooking of Ireland . 21 December 2012 . Chronicle Books . 978-1-4521-2405-6.
8. Web site: Irish draught horse book – Buy the Book . Irish draught horse book . 10 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161229143459/http://www.irishdraughthorsebook.com/page02-abouttheauthors.html . 29 December 2016.
9. Web site: Horses: A lifetime of breeding top class draughts and show jumpers – Independent.ie . Independent . 10 November 2016.