![]() She had no television, washing machine and of course no mobile phone, the only exception being in Gaza where there were no land line phones. I gave up years ago because they wanted shorter and shorter reviews” and as Dervla admitted, she never had a passion for writing the shorter piece, which was “completely different to writing a book.”ĭervla was a woman of simple and ascetic taste. “I did a lot of book reviewing mainly for the Irish Times, but occasionally for the TLS (Times Literary Supplement). Book reviews were something she disliked writing but it provided an income. They were published in 1979 as her autobiography, Wheels Within Wheels. ![]() For five years she wrote book reviews, as well as making notes about her own life. She put travelling on hold for several years when Rachel was very small. Dervla chose to bring up her daughter on her own, disregarding any opposing opinions of the day. The father’s name was never revealed until he died. Rachel was born in unconventional circumstance, her father was Terence de Vere White, literary editor, then of the Irish Times who was married at the time. ![]() ![]() The only period of her life after her mother died when she didn’t travel was after her daughter’s birth. ![]()
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