Ann Saddlemyer

Standard Name: Saddlemyer, Ann

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
Literary responses Augusta Gregory
Critic Ann Saddlemyer considers this the only bitter play Lady Gregory wrote.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
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Reception Augusta Gregory
Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
AG found tragedy easier to write than comedy. She saw it as a form in which fate itself is the protagonist and the hero, however much he kick[s] or struggle[s] is in the claws all...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
It had already been published in Seven Short Plays.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii.
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Critic Ann Saddlemyer has argued that this play unmistakably belong[s] to Lady Gregory's vision of the world.
Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions.
75
She attributes the stranger's song and...
Textual Production Augusta Gregory
Ann Saddlemyer has described AG 's move to wonder plays late in her career as taking her through one more gateway, into the land of eternal wonder, the fairy tale.
Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions.
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Texts

Murphy, Daniel. “’Dear John Quinn’”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 123-30.
Kelly, John. “’Friendship is the Only House I Have’: Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 179-57.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 1-12.
Pethica, James. “Commentary on ’A Woman’s Sonnets’ by Lady Gregory”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 114-22.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xv.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii.
Saddlemyer, Ann. In Defence of Lady Gregory, Playwright. Dufour Editions, 1966.
Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi.
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1987, pp. 143-62.
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.
Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Lady Gregory’s Contributions to Periodicals: A Checklist”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 322-45.
Saddlemyer, Ann, and Colin Smythe, editors. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After. Colin Smythe, 1987.
Malone, Andrew E. “Lady Gregory: 1852-1932”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 35-44.
Shaw, George Bernard. “Note on Lady Gregory’s Plays”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Dan H. Laurence et al., Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 274-6.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. “The Cloud of Witnesses”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 56-69.
Synge, John Millington. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge: Volume I. Editor Saddlemyer, Ann, Oxford University Press, 1983.