ABSTRACT
Claire Crellin extracts from and collates the responses of a Dublin-based group who recorded their conversations on Milner’s four diary-type books, A Life of One’s Own; An Experiment in Leisure; Eternity’s Sunrise; and the posthumously published Bothered by Alligators. The author/participants contribute different standpoints: Clare Crellin from a Jungian psychoanalytical perspective, Veronica O’Doherty from a mindfulness and Buddhist perspective, Alena Eagan from an art and sculpture perspective, and Margaret Boyle-Spelman from a Winnicottian psychoanalytical perspective. As Milner wrote diaries from age ten until her death at ninety-nine years of age, these books constitute probes into different phases of Milner’s life cycle.
