Olga Fielden (1903–1973) was a Belfast based playwright and novelist.[1][2]

Her novel Island Story (Jonathan Cape, 1933) was described in the Times Literary Supplement as having an "exhilarating quality".[3] Stress (Jonathan Cape, 1936) was similarly described as "fresh and vigorous".[4] John Wilson Foster describes Fielden's fictional world as one in which "violence, degeneration, animal desires and greed battle with the gentler aspirations to refinement, cultivation, decency."[5]

Fielden wrote a number of plays for the BBC and Three To Go was produced by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

References

  1. ↑ Belfast novelist and playwright dies, The Irish Times 25/04/1973
  2. ↑ Brown, S. J. and Clarke, D. Ireland in Fiction: Volume 2 (Royal Carbery Books : Cork, 1985) p.90
  3. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, 19/10/1933, p.712
  4. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, 12/12/1936
  5. ↑ 5 John Wilson Foster, Irish Novels 1890-1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p 168.


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