Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan.
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Occupation | Edith Craig | The costumes were judged to be a success, and the performance marked a turning point in her theatrical career. She branched into costume design (having formed a company, Edith Craig and Co.
, which was... |
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. 11-12 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xxvi. xxiv Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan. 156 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | Annie Horniman
, whom FF
met through the Order of the Golden Dawn
, agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats
to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted... |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | The first idea for the Irish Literary Theatre developed as AG
, W. B. Yeats
, and Edward Martyn
were discussing the latter's play Maeve, and asked themselves why it could not be staged... |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
retired temporarily from the stage in 1897, disappointed at not having received the same recognition as other New Woman actresses (Elizabeth Robins
, for instance). Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 67 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
Occupation | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) put in several years of voluntary work at the Time and Talents Settlement
at Bermondsey, doing little plays and dances and hymns with children from poor homes. She was... |
Occupation | Maud Gonne | MG
played the heroine in Augusta Gregory
's and Yeats
's Cathleen ni Houlihan in the Irish National Theatre
's production, opening on 2 April 1902. This role made her a symbol of the nation. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Literary responses | Kathleen Raine | |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | W. B. Yeats
wrote to her of this book: You have the gift to describe many people with sympathy and even with admiration and yet to leave them their distinct characters. Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., pp. 323-36. 331 |
Literary responses | Michael Field | Writing in 1892, William Butler Yeats
said that Callirrhoë possessed imagination and fancy in plenty Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press. 227 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Mew | Marianne Moore
was quoted on the dust-jacket: This collection is to me extraordinary—unforced, and masterly in a technical way, almost without exception. There are in the style traces of W. B. Yeats
and Thomas Hardy |
Literary responses | Michael Field | Writing in The Bookman, William Butler Yeats
called this collection suggestive and thoroughly unsatisfactory. Yeats, W. B. Uncollected Prose by W.B. Yeats. Editors Frayne, John P. and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press. 225 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Horses did a great deal to ensure DW
's continuing reputation. Yeats
particularly praised the lines on the wild grey asses fleet / With stripe from head to tail, and moderate ears. Yeats, W. B., and Dorothy Wellesley. “Introduction”. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, Macmillan, p. vii - xv. ix |
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