By Ann Saddlemyer
ISBN-10: 0198112327
ISBN-13: 9780198112327
ISBN-10: 0585486387
ISBN-13: 9780585486383
Ann Saddlemyer's biography of W. B. Yeats's spouse, George, portrays an awfully proficient, clever, and self-effacing girl, whose artistic impact hasn't ever ahead of been absolutely understood. She was once spouse and supervisor of a recognized poet, and mom to his youngsters, yet in her personal correct additionally an encouraged visionary and a pragmatic lady of the humanities. Georgie Hyde Lees used to be raised in London's literary salons, the place arts, anthroposophy and the occult met. An complete linguist, artwork scholar and literary student, she married W. B. Yeats whilst she used to be 25, and he fifty two. Her supernatural "automatic writing" turned the muse of Yeats's poetry and notion for the final twenty years of his lifestyles, but she continually hid the intensity in their collaboration. shut good friend of many writers and poets, between them Frank O'Connor and Ezra Pound, she spent her lengthy widowhood steerage the "Yeats undefined" and actively aiding more youthful students and writers. For the 1st time, this clever and inventive lady is authorized to take middle level. Drawing on memoirs and a wealth of unknown and unpublished resources, this biography via the prestigious pupil Ann Saddlemyer unearths somebody even more major than simply '"Mrs. W. B. Yeats"--a character instantaneously visionary and sensible, and an incredible determine in twentieth-century literary heritage.
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Does she still dream as Georgie? An intolerable name. But names do stick—like ‘Dobbs’, which must have come from a round man, a character in one of their children’s books perhaps. As Harold would be her ‘Hokel’, she would forever be ‘Dobbs’ to him, even to Eva Ducat and Jelly d’Aranyi. Willy always refuses to call her that, though he sometimes addresses her so in letters. —‘Georgiana’! Of course, to Dorothy she will always be ‘Coz’ . George was not the only name she chose: to members of the Order of the Golden Dawn she was ‘Nemo Sciat’, Let Nobody Know.
13 Perhaps now, also, there will be an opportunity for that long-promised trip to Italy. Those journeys with Olivia and Dorothy had been important in so many ways. Strange that she was never really homesick for England, but Italy . . 14 This page intentionally left blank F; GEORGIE G: P I P ‒ This page intentionally left blank A G: On the morning of December the entire village of Compstall, Cheshire, in the ancient Township and Manor of Werneth, was in celebratory mood.
London’s first electric railway, the Central Line, began operating in , the same year electric trams were introduced; the first underground tube stations did not open until , the year the Victoria and Albert Museum was finally completed. For those who could afford it, travel above ground was simpler and more suitable: within a four-mile radius of Charing Cross a hansom cab cost a shilling for the first two miles and sixpence for each extra mile, while a package outside the cab raised the charge another twopence.
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