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Seventy Years
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Lady Gregory
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Lady Gregory
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Lady Gregory
Lady Gregory, Abbey Theatre founder and patron of W. B. Yeats, writer and daughter of a Galway landowner, became a key figure in the Irish Revival. This new biography investigates Augusta Gregory's varied relationships and the contradictions and achievements of her life. This portrait of a fascinating woman places Lady Gregory in the Ireland of her time, showing how her nationalism in politics and literature shaped her life and work.
Lady Gregory's Journals, 1916-1930
The journals of Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory, begin at the end of 1916, and their first purpose was to record the complicated negotiations she undertook to achieve the return of the "Lane pictures" after her nephew, Sir Hugh Lane, was drowned in the torpedoing of the "Lusitania." The only alterations made are to substitute a name for initials, for the reader's better understanding, as per her request. She typed her old Journals, and deleted anything that she thought might give pain. I am sure I have omitted much that to others will seem very important, and when this book is published I hope her heirs will deposit these forty-two typewritten volumes in our National Library for others to read and find cause to blame me. -- editor Lennox Robinson, from the foreword.
Lady Gregory's Diaries, 1892-1902
These diaries, covering the decade or so following the death of her husband in 1892 until they peter out in 1902, chart the course of Lady Gregory's gradual but remarkable remaking of her life. Widowed at thirty-nine, with a London social circle composed mainly of her husband's friends, broadly Unionist in her political views, and with only a few minor publications to her name, she was by her fiftieth year an influential Nationalist, close friend of the major figures of the Irish literary movement, widely acknowledged as the hostess of a `workshop of genius' at Coole Park, and on the threshold of lasting literary prominence in her own right. The rich account these pages give of Lady Gregory'...
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The Essential Lady Gregory Collection
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Lady Gregory Gods and Fighting Men The Kiltartan History Book The Kiltartan Poetry Book New Irish Comedies Poets and Dreamers Three Wonder Plays Unicorn From The Stars
