Janice Dales ''aka'' Kim Morrissey is a Canadian poet and playwright who lives in London, England. Many of her works examine the role of women in nineteenth century culture, re-imagining the lives of historical figures. She is also part of the Comedy Collective UK (which included Colin Shelbourn, John Random, Ivan Shakespeare, Lee Barnett, Claire Storey, Jasmine Birtles, Robert Priest). The working drafts of Morrissey's play ''Mrs Ruskin'', about

Effie Gray Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (''née'' Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously been married to the art critic John Ruskin, ...

, have been published on the web. She has written for various radio dramas and documentaries, as well as the 1980s radio show

Week Ending ''Week Ending'' was a satirical radio current affairs sketch show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1970 and 1998. It was devised by writer-producers Simon Brett and David Hatch and was originally hosted by '' Nationwide'' presenter Michael Ba ...

. Morissey's ''Poems for Men who Dream of Lolita'' purport to be written by

Lolita ''Lolita'' is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humber ...

herself, reflecting on the events in the story, a sort of diary in poetry form. Morrissey portrays Lolita as an innocent, wounded soul. In speaking of her work in ''Lolita Unclothed,'' a documentary by

Camille Paglia Camille Anna Paglia (; born April 2, 1947) is an American feminist academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. She is critical of many aspects of modern cultur ...

, she has complained that in the novel Lolita has "no voice". The poems were set to music at the New Music Festival in Winnipeg in 1993 (composer: Sid Rabinovitch). Five poems from the book were selected for ''Mythic Women/Real Women'' (edited by Lizbeth Goodman), Faber & Faber's Women & Gender university textbook.Author's website
/ref> Morrisey also dealt with the theme of ephebophilia in her stage play about Sigmund Freud's Dora case.

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*''Batoche'' – 1989 *''Poems for Men Who Dream of Lolita'' – 1992 *''Dora: A Case of Hysteria'' – 1994 *''Clever as Paint: The Rossettis in Love'' – 1998 *''Mrs. Ruskin'' – 2003

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Canadian Authors – Kim Morrissey

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