Dorothy Wellesley

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Standard Name: Wellesley, Dorothy
Birth Name: Dorothy Violet Ashton
Styled: Lady Dorothy Violet Ashton
Pseudonym: M. A.
Married Name: Dorothy Violet Wellesley
Indexed Name: Lady Gerald Wellesley
Styled: Lady Dorothy Violet Wellesley
Titled: Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
Nickname: Dottie
DW , writing in the earlier twentieth century, published a dozen volumes of poetry. She was also an editor of contemporary poetry, a letter-writer, critic, biographer and autobiographer. Her association first with the Hogarth Press and later with W. B. Yeats helped to give her a high profile. Her poetry typically looks back from the modern world, either to ancient history and prehistory, or to her own childhood. She voices a strong feeling for the natural world and a philosophic questioning about origins and principles.

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Family and Intimate relationships W. B. Yeats
In his late seventies WBY began having a series of affairs, condoned and abetted by his wife, who would travel with him across the Irish Channel to Holyhead to see him off on a journey...

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