Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Maud Gonne
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Standard Name: Gonne, Maud
Birth Name: Edith Maud Gonne
Used Form: MacBride, Maud
English-born MG
subjected almost all the writing as well as all the activity in her life to her Irish nationalism. From a highly effective and dramatic orator she became a polemical journalist, first in French, then in English. She also published an autobiography of her earlier years.
Constance, Countess Markievicz,
was arrested along with other Sinn Féin
leaders (including Maud Gonne
) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail
; she was not released until 10 March 1919.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
182, 189
politics
Constance Countess Markievicz
It was among her own boys' group that CCM
first began to go by the title of Madame rather than Countess. Anne Haverty
explains: In eschewing the Mrs of English usage, certain women showed...
politics
John Millington Synge
Maud Gonne
had been assisting tenants in Donegal who were threatened with eviction by their landlords. After meeting her, JMS
joined the Irish League
(further severing his links with his family's landlord class). However, he...
politics
Martin Ross
Ross in her turn could not approve of Maud Gonne
's socialism and Irish Nationalism.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
130
politics
Sylvia Pankhurst
After 1918 SP
was the honorary secretary of the Workers' Socialist Federation
(her former suffrage organisation). Politically transformed by the Russian revolution, she had ceased to believe that suffrage and the electoral process held any...
Reception
Nawal El Saadawi
In 2012 she won the Stig Dagerman Award for free speech and (jointly with Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni
) the Sean MacBride
Peace Prize (named after the son of Maud Gonne
). In Egypt...
Reception
John Millington Synge
Maud Gonne
, Arthur Griffith
, and other nationalists demonstrated against the play, whose picture of Irish life they found unacceptable. They attributed its negative tone to the insidious and destructive tyranny of foreign influence.
qtd. in
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
under Gonne
Residence
Charlotte Despard
CD
moved from London to settle at Roebuck House in Clonskeagh (south Dublin) with Maud Gonne
, and helped make their home a radical political centre.
Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980.
220
Textual Production
Augusta Gregory
The part of Cathleen was written for Maud Gonne
, who played it magnificently and with weird power, as Yeats
put it.
qtd. in
Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan ODay, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27.
