Research Catalog

Title

Lady Gregory's diaries, 1892-1902 / edited and introduced by James Pethica.

Author

Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932

Publication

Gerrards Cross : Colin Smythe, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pethica, James

Description

xxxviii, 346 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., coat of arms, facsim., ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The rich account these pages give of Lady Gregory's life in the 1890s and of her deepening friendship with and patronage of W.B. Yeats radically changes the existing image of her evolution as an Irish writer and Nationalist. As the only contemporary diary kept by a major figure in the Irish literary movement during these years, the day-to-day record of the summer visits of Yeats, Synge, George Moore, AE, Hyde and others to Coole, of the early years of the Irish Literary Theatre, and of the swiftly changing allegiances and tensions in her extensive literary circle, provides a revealing and frequently corrective counterweight to the narratives of these years written long afterwards (in the light of later autobiographical imperatives) by Yeats, Moore, Lady Gregory herself and others."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Diaries. Selections

Alternative Title

Diaries.

Subjects

• 1800-1899
• Diaries
• Women authors, Irish > 19th century > Diaries
• Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 > Diaries

Genre/Form

Diaries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0861403061

LCCN

gb^96040118^

OCLC

• 34933474
• SCSB-12654854

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library