Corinthian Dinner Committee

Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...

ES shared with Martin Ross their first recognition by Dublin literary society, at the dinner for twelve Irish women writers given by the Corinthian Dinner Committee in March 1910.

The Corinthian Dinner Committee of Dublin honoured Irish women writers including Edith Somerville , Martin Ross , Lady Gregory , Eva Gore-Booth , Emily Lawless , Susan Mitchell , and Katharine Tynan .