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, 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 B ...
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Morissey's ''Poems for Men who Dream of Lolita'' purport to be written by
Lolita 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, 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.
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/ref> Morrisey also dealt with the theme of ephebophilia in her stage play about Sigmund Freud's Dora case.
Works
*''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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*List of Canadian writers
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References
External links
Canadian Authors – Kim Morrissey
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1955 births
Living people
Canadian women poets
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
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21st-century Canadian women writers