In 1981 Good Behaviour came out under her own name the manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was lent to a visitor, the actress Peggy Ashcroft, who encouraged Keane to publish it. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. Between 19, she wrote 11 novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. She used her married name for her later novels, several of which ( Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare).
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