“Ed was really ambitious and there was a cap on how ambitious you could be in Ireland then,” Eve recalled. Even though they were Protestant, Eve and Ed had many Catholic friends and didn’t like the atmosphere. In 1958, “The troubles were really bad,” Eve said. They later settled in Belfast and had a daughter Christine and two sons Sloan and Glen. “My grade advisor told me not to pursue English because I wasn’t good enough.” Eve left school after two years, not because of her grade advisor, but because she met Ed Bunting, then an upper classman and now her husband of 51 years and a retired hospital administrator.
From boarding school Eve went to Queen’s University, Belfast where she studied English and other languages. She got home only for vacations and occasional long weekends and missed her parents. “He’d fill up a tea chest,” she said, and bring it home.Īt age seven, Eve left home for boarding school in Belfast because her parents wanted more than what the small elementary school in town could provide. He was a big, rough, tough cattle-dealing man, and his friends would never have believed he loved poetry.” And while Yeats was her dad’s favorite Irish poet, he read long epic poetry to Eve, who distinctly remembers Longfellow’s “Hiawatha” and Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott.” “I thought all stories were written like poems,” she said.Īfter reading one of these epics, Sloan Bolton would look at his daughter and ask, “Now, darlin’, do you understand it?” Eve says her father scoured the countryside and went to farm auctions to buy up all the books. Both of her parents were great readers.Įve remembers sitting in her father’s lap and being read to. From her earliest years in Maghera, a small town in County Derry, books and stories filled her life. Urn:oclc:48861981 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111214180955 Scanner was only natural that the young Eve Bolton would grow up to be a writer, and a very prolific one who would produce more than 200 books for children. OL97511W Page-progression lr Pages 42 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0440845793 Urn:lcp:howmanydaystoame00bunt:lcpdf:820a6e14-082c-4624-af76-3c8b42f84082 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier howmanydaystoame00bunt Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4nk4d23g Isbn 0899195210Ġ812492811 Lccn 88002590 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition
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