![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her own passion for hunting and horses was born out of her need for fun and enjoyment. Relationships between her and her parents were cold and she states that she had no fun in her life as a child. She was educated by her mother, governesses, and at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. She grew up at Ballyrankin House on the side of River Slaney, a few miles south east of Bunclody, County Wexford and refused to go to boarding school in England as her siblings had done. Her father, Walter Clarmont Skrine (died 1930), was from a Somerset family and owned land at Alberta, Canada, and was a fanatic for horses and hunting her mother, Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864-1955), a poet who wrote under the pseudonym Moira O'Neill, was daughter of Charles Henry Higginson (son of James Macaulay Higginson, Governor of British Mauritius from 1851 to 1857), a colonial administrator in Mauritius. Keane was born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare. Farrell, was an Irish novelist and playwright. Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996), née Mary Nesta Skrine, and who also wrote as M. ![]()
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