Talk:Frances Parkinson Keyes

Translation and Rediscovery of the Works of Maria Vela y Cueto
I don't know how to edit Wikipedia properly. I came here after reading about Frances Parkinson Keyes' rediscovery of the works of an early modern Spanish mystic, Maria Vela y Cueto of Avila (d. 1617). Biographies of her were published after her death, but her own works remained unpublished until they were discovered in Santa Ana convent, Avila, by Keyes in 1959. The relevant quote for that from the book I've been reading is:

"Frances Parkinson Keyes came across the manuscripts as she was researching a biography of Isabella the Catholic. The famous and socially prominent writer secured permission from the nuns of Santa Ana to bring the documents back with her to the United States and translate them there. She left her jewelry as collateral." (Jodi Bilinkoff. The Avila of Saint Teresa : Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City. With a New Introduction. ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, 198 n.93)

The relevant book by Keyes is: Vela y Cueto, Maria. The Third Mystic of Avila: The Self-Revelation of Maria Vela, a Sixteenth Century Spanish Nun, trans. Frances Parkinson Keyes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.98.244.12 (talk) 02:20, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

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I see Keyes as more of an historical novelist than a Catholic writer. In her novels, the Catholic themes do not jump out at the reader. Should her Catholicism be listed twice in the introductory sentence? AaronCBurke 20:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I think you are right that Keyes has traditionally been seen as a historical writer rather than a Catholic author. However, I think Catholicism is a major theme in almost all of her work after 1936. In fact, her conversion to Catholicism increasingly informed most of her writing, especially following the death of her husband. I suspect her publishers, wishing to attract a wider audience, preferred to market her stories as historical or dynastic tales rather than promote them as stories with a spiritual theme. Bgriffith 02:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Not all of Keyes' novels were set in the past -- just look at the Louisiana books; Crescent Carnival, The River Road, Vail D' Alvery, Dinner at Antoine's and Larry Vincent take place in the 1940's or after (the age in which she wrote the,). Of the non-Louisiana books look at Station Wagon in Spain, The Ambassadress, All That Glitters, etc. If you combine her biographies of saints and books of religious inspiration, they add up to more than the number of her histiorical books. Based on these facts, I don't consider her primarily a historical novelist and writer; and I respect the fact that she considered herself a Catholic writer. JRWoodward 05:19, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Where are the best on line discussion groups about Mrs. Keyes and her work? Bgriffith 12:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Barbara Griffith

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