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.
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- Lady Gregory
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- One: Roxborough
- Two: Becoming Lady Gregory
- Three: Egypt and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Four: Mistress of Coole
- Five: Last Years with Sir William
- Six: Coole and London
- Seven: New Directions
- Eight: Yeats Comes to Coole
- Nine: Patron of the Revival
- Ten: Cathleen ni Houlihan
- Eleven: An Awakening Imagination
- Twelve: The Abbey Theatre
- Thirteen: Embroiled
- Fourteen: Crisis and Resolution
- Fifteen: Tragedies
- Sixteen: Shaw and Horniman
- Seventeen: America
- Eighteen: Theatre and Gallery
- Nineteen: The Arrival of War
- Twenty: Robert’s Death
- Twenty one: Augusta and Margaret
- Twenty two: Violence at Gort
- Twenty three: Redemption
- Twenty four: Last Years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
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