Mary Catherine Gunning Colum was an Irish literary critic and author, who co-founded a literary journal.
13 Facts About Mary Colum
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Mary Colum's mother died in 1895, leaving her to be reared by her grandmother, named Catherine, in Ballisodare, County Sligo.
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Mary Colum attended boarding school at St Louis' Convent, Monaghan.
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Mary Colum regularly attended the Abbey Theatre and was a frequent visitor amongst the salons, readings and debates there.
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Mary Colum was active with Thomas MacDonagh and others in nationalist and cultural causes.
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Mary Colum co-founded The Irish Review with David Houston, Thomas MacDonagh, et al.
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Mary Colum was encouraged by Yeats to specialise in French literary criticism and to translate Paul Claudel.
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Mary Colum married Padraic Colum in July 1912, and they moved to New York in 1914, living occasionally in London and Paris.
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Mary Colum associated with James Joyce in Paris, and discouraged him from duping enquirers about the origins of the interior monologue in the example of Edouard Dujardin.
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Mary Colum accepted Joyce's very ill daughter Lucia for a week in their Paris flat at the height of her 'hebephrenic' attack, while herself preparing for an operation in May 1932.
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Mary Colum served as the literary editor of The Forum magazine from 1933 to 1941, commenced teaching comparative literature with Padraic at Columbia University in 1941.
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Mary Colum rebutted Oliver St John Gogarty's intemperate remarks about Joyce in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1941.
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Mary Colum was the author of several books, including the autobiographical Life and the Dream, and From These Roots, a collection of her criticism.