Lucy McDiarmid

Standard Name: McDiarmid, Lucy

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Augusta Gregory
Two ornery old men in a workhouse, named Mike and Michael, pass the time by exchanging complaints and vivid insults, nearly coming to blows. Faced with the option of improving his circumstances by moving in...
Literary responses Augusta Gregory
Critics Lucy McDiarmid and Maureen Waters deem this AG 's most important book of folklore.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
527
Literary responses Augusta Gregory
Several recent critics (including McDiarmid and Waters , Richard Cave , and Cathy Leeney ) read this play as a powerful feminist re-evaluation of the figure of Grania.
Reception Augusta Gregory
In 1995 Penguin published a volume of AG 's selected writings, edited by Lucy McDiarmid and Maureen Waters , circulating her work to a wider audience. That year also saw the launch of the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913.
80
for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG was very pleased with herself for being able to write a full-length play with only three characters. When she told Yeats this, he replied: They must have a great deal to talk about.
qtd. in
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
544

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Texts

Litz, A. Walton. “Florence Farr: A ’Transitional’ Woman”. High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 85-106.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin, 1995.