Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
W. B. Yeats
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Standard Name: Yeats, W. B.
Used Form: William Butler Yeats
Used Form: Willie Yeats
WBY
, who began publishing well before the end of the nineteenth century, is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century poets in English, and one of the most international of Irish writers. He was early involved in the Irish Literary Revival, and wrote early, highly romantic lyrics on Celtic and fairy themes. Later he made poetry out of the search for a poetic language. Some of his later work is affected by his interest in the occult.
CCM
then joined a social circle unlike those she had been part of as a younger woman. She and Casimir lived nearby their close associate Æ
(George Russell
), with whom they sometimes exhibited...
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
71
Through the...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Richardson
Curiously, DR
's move to Woburn Walk also brought her into (limited) contact with the poet W. B. Yeats
. Richardson lived at 2 Woburn Buildings, while Yeats lived at number 18; they sometimes...
Friends, Associates
Freya Stark
Through her association with Jeyes, FS
met such literary figures as H. G. Wells
and W. B. Yeats
. She also campaigned for the Anti-Suffrage League
and met key figures in the group, including its...
Friends, Associates
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw
Her first visit to Ireland proved crucial for the literary contacts it enabled her to make: Æ
(George Russell) and W. B. Yeats
. Æ, the editor of The Irish Statesman, became an important...
Fictionalization
Eva Gore-Booth
W. B. Yeats
(who first met the Gore-Booth family in about 1894, and associated with Eva and her sister Constance Markievicz
for the rest of their lives)
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
37
wrote In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and...
Fictionalization
Constance, Countess Markievicz
W. B. Yeats
wrote his famous poem In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth
and Con Markievicz, about the two Irish sisters, activists, and writers.
Smith, D. J. “The Countess and the Poets: Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz in the Work of Irish Writers”. Journal of Irish Literature, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 3-63.
52
Family and Intimate relationships
Katharine Tynan
W. B. Yeats
, encouraged by his father
, proposed to KT
, but she was already secretly engaged to Henry Hinkson
, who became her husband in 1893.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Wellesley
DW
's association with Yeats
, which lasted only the last three and a half years of his life, is treated by some commentators as a love-affair.
Tóibín, Colm. “A Djinn speaks”. London Review of Books, pp. 19-24.
24
Family and Intimate relationships
Florence Farr
W. B. Yeats
became interested in FF
when he saw her play the role of a shepherdess in John Todhunter
's play A Sicilian Idyll, and was transfixed by her voice.
Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe.
39-40
Family and Intimate relationships
Augusta Gregory
Robert married Margaret Graham Parry
, a fellow art student, in 1907. They had three children, one of whom, Anne with her golden hair, was the subject of a poem by Yeats
.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
