According to Wilfrid Blunt
's Secret Diaries, he and AG
consummated their relationship, which developed through their passionate support for Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey
.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985.
65
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
xiv
Longford, Elizabeth. “Lady Gregory and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 85-97.
90-1
politics
Augusta Gregory
There AG
became a champion of the Egyptian nationalist cause headed by Arabi Bey
. A meeting with his family inspired her first publication.
Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan. “’Wage for Each People Her Hand Has Destoyed’: Lady Gregory’s Colonial Nationalism”. Irish University Review, Vol.
34
, No. 1, 1 Mar. 2004– 2024, pp. 49-66.
55
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, 1990.
Publishing
Augusta Gregory
After a trip to Egypt with her husband
, AG
published an article in the Times, Arabi and His Household, supporting the Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey
.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985.
