Geraldine Dorothy Cummins (1890â€"1969) was an Irish spiritualist
medium, novelist and playwright.[1] She began her career as a creative
writer, but increasingly concentrated on mediumship and "channelled"
writings, mostly about the lives of Jesus and Saint Paul, though she
also published on a range of other topics.Her novels and plays
typically documented Irish life in a naturalist manner, often
exploring the pathos of everyday life.She was born in Cork, Ireland,
the daughter of the physician Ashley Cummins, professor of medicine at
the National University of Ireland and sister to Mary Hearn and Iris
Cummins. In her youth she was an athlete, becoming a member of the
Irish Women's International Hockey Team. She was also active as a
suffragette. Her desire to follow her father in a medical career was
vetoed by her mother, so she began a literary career as a journalist
and creative writer. From 1913 to 1917 she wrote three plays for the
Abbey Theatre in collaboration with Suzanne R. Day, the most
successful of which was the comedy Fox and Geese (1917).[2] She
published the novel The Land they Loved in 1919, a naturalistic study
of working class Irish life.
medium, novelist and playwright.[1] She began her career as a creative
writer, but increasingly concentrated on mediumship and "channelled"
writings, mostly about the lives of Jesus and Saint Paul, though she
also published on a range of other topics.Her novels and plays
typically documented Irish life in a naturalist manner, often
exploring the pathos of everyday life.She was born in Cork, Ireland,
the daughter of the physician Ashley Cummins, professor of medicine at
the National University of Ireland and sister to Mary Hearn and Iris
Cummins. In her youth she was an athlete, becoming a member of the
Irish Women's International Hockey Team. She was also active as a
suffragette. Her desire to follow her father in a medical career was
vetoed by her mother, so she began a literary career as a journalist
and creative writer. From 1913 to 1917 she wrote three plays for the
Abbey Theatre in collaboration with Suzanne R. Day, the most
successful of which was the comedy Fox and Geese (1917).[2] She
published the novel The Land they Loved in 1919, a naturalistic study
of working class Irish life.
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