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xxi, 808 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 660-794) and index. |
| Contents |
Family Tree -- Prelude: Ballylee -- Georgie -- Progressions 1892-1918 -- Ancestry -- Childhood -- Friends -- Studies -- The Golden Dawn -- Forest Row -- London, Oxford, and Dublin -- George -- Conjunctions 1919-1921 -- Coole -- Anne -- Oxford and New York -- Michael -- Directions 1922-1928 -- Ballylee -- Merrion Square -- Dublin -- Transits 1929-1939 -- Rapallo -- Fitzwilliam Square -- Riversdale -- Majorca -- Menton -- Mrs W.B. -- Mapping 1939-1968 -- Palmerston Road -- Seekers and Friends -- Postlude: Odysseys -- The Death of William Gilbert Hyde Lees. |
| Summary |
"'I, the poet William Yeats ... Restored this tower for my wife George' claims the lovely six-line poem in which Yeats dedicates the renovation of Thoor Ballylee. But the poem's truth conceals another, and different truth - that they worked together at the restoration, and it was largely her vision and hands that created a dwelling from the former ruins. Just how symbolic this is, of the close but largely hidden collaboration between them, is revealed by this deeply-researched life of George Yeats - the first full-scale biography of a woman of remarkable gifts and generous self concealment." "For the first time, this woman is allowed to take centre stage. Drawing on memoirs and a wealth of unknown and unpublished sources, this biography by the distinguished scholar Ann Saddlemyer reveals someone much more significant than just 'Mrs. W.B. Yeats' - a personality at once visionary and practical, and an important figure in twentieth-century literary history."--Jacket. |
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Yeats, Georgie, -1968.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Marriage.
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Authors' spouses -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Married people -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Spiritualists -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Occultists -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Yeats, Georgie, -1968 (OCoLC)fst01859346
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (OCoLC)fst00029120
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Authors' spouses. (OCoLC)fst00821752
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Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
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Married people. (OCoLC)fst01010656
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Occultists. (OCoLC)fst01043157
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Spiritualists. (OCoLC)fst01130184
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0198112327 |
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9780198112327 |
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9780198112327 |
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