Kate O'Brien

Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright, born in Limerick City, renowned for her explorations of female autonomy, sexuality, and critiques of Irish Catholic conservatism in works like Without My Cloak (1931), which won the Hawthornden Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Mary Lavelle (1936), The Land of Spices (1941), and That Lady (1946), several of which were banned in Ireland.Kate O'Brien (novelist) Wikipedia).com