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Maude Gonne
Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the greatest poets of the age, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world's most powerful empire. She was an actress, a journalist and an activist for the cause of Irish independence. Ignoring the threat of social ostracism, she had several children out of wedlock. She was an independent woman who charted her own course. Yet Maud Gonne was also a lifelong anti-semite, someone who, even after the horrors of the Second World War, could not summon s...
Maud Gonne
A biography of the English-born Irish revolutionary and suffragette.
Maud Gonne
In this autobiographical study of Maud Gonne, the woman who spurned the love of W.B.Yeats, the author shows her to have played a significant part in Irish life and politics. Her political career began with the glamour of an espionage assignment in Czarist Russia but she soon made the cause of Irish freedom her life's work. As a woman of independent means she was able to escape many of the stifling conventions of Victorian Britain - in Ireland she was the symbol of romantic nationalism. Although many men were inspired by her, Maud Gonne was more concerned with helping women to take an independent role in Irish life. She founded a nationalist women's group called Daughters of Erin which gave many women their first taste of political action.
The Autobiography of Maud Gonne
Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering—those evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wright, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialism—she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems.
Maud Gonne
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The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938
This correspondence, which began when Gonne was 22 and Yeats was 23 and ended with his death, includes 373 of her letters but only 30 of his, since most of his were destroyed in the Irish Civil War. They are edited with complete notes identifying people and incidents likely to be unfamiliar to current readers. The introduction and connecting material provide biographical information and explain the circumstances in which the letters were written.
Lucky Eyes and a High Heart
Maud Gonne was born in England to a proper English family, but she loved Ireland and dedicated her life to fighting for its independence from England. She became known as the "Irish Joan of Arc" and battled for expolited Irish tenant farmers, for starving Irish children, for the rights of women. -- Book Jacket
Maud Gonne
...to have restored her to us so memorably is an impressive achievement, and an occasion for great gratitude.--Dorothy Parker, The Christian Science Monitor
