Maud Gonne

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Standard Name: Gonne, Maud
Birth Name: Edith Maud Gonne
Used Form: MacBride, Maud
English-born MG subjected almost all the writing as well as all the activity in her life to her Irish nationalism. From a highly effective and dramatic orator she became a polemical journalist, first in French, then in English. She also published an autobiography of her earlier years.
Black and white, three-quarter-length photograph of Maud Gonne, standing hand on hip in a defiant pose. Her dark, elaborate hat has a bird's wings jutting out on top; her dark jacket has a standaway collar, leg-of-mutton sleeves, decoration all over and a tight belt.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kate O'Brien
KOB refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford and Nancy Mitford , admiringly to Maria Edgeworth and Lady Gregory (the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
After 1918 SP was the honorary secretary of the Workers' Socialist Federation (her former suffrage organisation). Politically transformed by the Russian revolution, she had ceased to believe that suffrage and the electoral process held any...
politics Martin Ross
Ross in her turn could not approve of Maud Gonne 's socialism and Irish Nationalism.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
130
Friends, Associates Evelyn Sharp
In Ireland in 1919 she met Maud Gonne and George Russell .
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
207
In 1921 Gonne slipped in to see Sharp in her hotel bedroom when she heard of her presence, thereby ensuring that from...
Friends, Associates John Millington Synge
JMS , in Paris, met for the first time both William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne (an Irish nationalist then hiding in France to avoid being jailed at home).
Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan.
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Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi.
xxi
politics John Millington Synge
Maud Gonne had been assisting tenants in Donegal who were threatened with eviction by their landlords. After meeting her, JMS joined the Irish League (further severing his links with his family's landlord class). However, he...
Reception John Millington Synge
Maud Gonne , Arthur Griffith , and other nationalists demonstrated against the play, whose picture of Irish life they found unacceptable. They attributed its negative tone to the insidious and destructive tyranny of foreign influence.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.
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Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
KT met the Irish Republican activist Maude Gonne (also known for her poetic inspiration of W. B. Yeats ) at a Protestant Home Rule Association meeting, which Tynan attended despite being Catholic.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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Family and Intimate relationships W. B. Yeats
His ardent romantic pursuit of Maud Gonne led to his involvement in Irish nationalist politics, and inspired many poems. He also developed an intimate friendship with Florence Farr , a writer and actress whose stylized...
Family and Intimate relationships W. B. Yeats
Within a few months of proposing marriage to Maud Gonne 's daughter Iseult (as he had formerly proposed to to Gonne herself) WBY married (on 20 October 1917, at the age of fifty-two) Georgie Hyde-Lees
Material Conditions of Writing W. B. Yeats
He wrote the poem in France, where he was with Maud Gonne , after Lady Augusta Gregory wrote to him in August to challenge him about his apparent indifference about Ireland. Actual publication was...

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