Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively championing causes close to her heart. At once conservative and radical in her beliefs, she saw no conflict in idealizing and mythologizing the Irish peasantry, for example, while her landlord husband introduced legislation that would, in part, lead to the widespread misery, poverty and starvation of the Great Famine. Nevertheless, as founder of the Abbey Theatre, an outspoken opponent of censorship, and mentor, muse, and mother-figure to W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory played a pivotal role in shaping Irish literary and dramatic history. Moreover, despite her parents' early predictions of spinsterhood, she was no matronly figure, engaging in a passionate affair while newly-wedded and, as she approached sixty, falling for a man almost twenty years her junior. 'Biographical portraits are too often nowadays smudged in a surfeit of words ...this one is a brilliant illumination' Spectator
Country USA
Brand Picador
Manufacturer Picador
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780330419932
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780330419932
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Picador
Manufacturer	Picador
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780330419932
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780330419932
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

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