George William Russell

Standard Name: Russell, George William
Used Form: Æ
Used Form: A. E.

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Literary responses Helen Waddell
HW treasured a letter in which Michael Sadleir responded to her novel, telling her he found it hard to write without hyperbole. Of course I expected great things, but nothing—nothing approaching what I found. It...
Literary responses Eva Gore-Booth
The volume was well-received by EGB 's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and...
Literary responses Eva Gore-Booth
This poem drew several tributes from friends. Æ (George Russell ) wrote: I am delighted with your poem. You have slipped into it at last—the Celtic manner . . . . It ought to...
Literary responses Katharine Tynan
George Russell wrote KT a complimentary letter in response to this volume: I don't know how you manage to keep so sunny all through . . . I would love to write cheerful poetry more...
Literary responses Katharine Tynan
At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT was revered as the next Catholic woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti . She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and...
Literary responses Helen Waddell
This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay , Æ , Walter de la Mare , and Stanley Baldwin .
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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Occupation John Millington Synge
In September 1905, JMS , along with Yeats and Lady Gregory , became directors of the company. George Russell and Fred Ryan were also administrators for the Irish National Theatre Society .
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.
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Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan.
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Occupation P. L. Travers
Her friend Æ introduced her to the editor of this journal, A. R. Orage . She also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, of which T. S. Eliot too was a member.
Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne.
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Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, pp. 19-24.
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politics Constance, Countess Markievicz
The journal, which was the first women's newspaper in Ireland, issued its first number this November, though CCM did not begin to publish articles in it until March 1909. Other contributors included Katharine Tynan ,...
Author summary Eva Gore-Booth
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan , Æ (...
Publishing P. L. Travers
For sixteen years from 1933, PLT wrote for The New English Weekly, edited by A. R. Orage (to whom her friend Æ introduced her). Her work for this journal consisted primarily of drama criticism...
Textual Features Augusta Gregory
The play, which grew out of a story told to Gregory by Æ , revolves around a series of characters who reveal their dreams only to see them crumble before reality.
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all...
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG edited a collection of essays protesting against British imperialism: Ideals in Ireland with contributions from W. B. Yeats , Douglas Hyde , Standish O'Grady , and Æ .
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, pp. 143-62.
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Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan. “’Wage for Each People Her Hand Has Destoyed’: Lady Gregory’s Colonial Nationalism”. Irish University Review, Vol.
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