''Molly Bawn'' is an 1878 novel by the Irish writer

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, (27 April 1855 – 24 January 1897), was an Irish novelist whose light romantic fiction was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th century. Biography She was born in County Cor ...

. In 1916 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title starring

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.Goble p.871 The novel is the origin of the expression "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

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* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. 1878 British novels English-language novels Novels set in Ireland British novels adapted into films Irish novels adapted into films 19th-century Irish novels Bawn, Molly Bawn, Molly {{1870s-novel-stub