1852 Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory (née Persse), playwright, folklorist and cofounder of the
Isabella Augusta Persse was born on March 15, 1852, the youngest of sixteen children in her Irish family. When she was twenty-eight years of age, she married Sir William Henry Gregory, thirty-five years her senior and a landowner and politician, which perhaps influenced Lady Gregory's own engagement in politics later in her life.
An Irish woman of substance Not all who wander are lost
Lady Augusta Isabella Gregory was the grand dame of Irish Theatre. Today, she is remembered as co-founder of The Abbey Theatre in Dublin and for turning her Galway home, Coole Park, into the mecca of the Irish Literary Revival. Here she nurtured many of the great writers of the Irish Renaissance including WB Yeats, Sean O'Casey, and JM Synge.
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The Irish dramatist Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) is best known for her collaboration with Yeats and Synge in the formation of the Irish National Theatre and the Abbey Theatre Company.
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Strong women are central in Gregory's plays. Grania contains some of her most lyrical language, ending with a woman who crowns herself. In The Golden Apple, a beautiful witch is considered ugly.
Augusta, Lady Gregory Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
MARCH 6, 2020— Augusta Gregory, the woman who helped shape modern Irish literature in the early 20th century, is the focus of a new exhibition opening at The New York Public Library.
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Augusta Gregory is known as a nationalist but she was also a social reformer insipred by John Ruskin Expand Lady Gregory in 1911: her good friend George Bernard Shaw once called her "the.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory ( née Persse; 15 March 1852 - 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Poem of the week Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory Poetry The Guardian
Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) is one of Ireland's most important literary figures, her influence and legacy still very much evident today. And yet people are mostly only aware of her founding.
1932 Death of Augusta Persse, better known as Lady Augusta Gregory.
Lady Augusta Gregory in 1911 Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poetry Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory The translation from the Gaelic leaves much of the original's grammatical.
Lady Augusta Gregory (Isabella Augusta, Irlanda,18521932) El joven Donal. Traducción de Pedro
Isabella Augusta Persse was born in 1852 on an estate, named Roxborough, in Galway, into a large family and its designated spinster. She surprised everyone when, in 1880, she married Sir William Gregory after falling in love with his library. Sir William, a wealthy widower, lived at a neighboring estate, Coole Park. She was 27, he was 63.
NPG 3950; Augusta, Lady Gregory Portrait National Portrait Gallery
RTÉ Culture presents a series of five early short stories written by Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) - these tales, Lady Gregory's only known efforts at short fiction, offer a remarkable insight.
Augusta, Lady Gregory Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
Augusta, Lady Gregory, (born March 15, 1852, Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland—died May 22, 1932, Coole), Irish writer and playwright who, by her translations of Irish legends, her peasant comedies and fantasies based on folklore, and her work for the Abbey Theatre, played a considerable part in the late 19th-century Irish literary renascence.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory ( née Persse; 15 March 1852 - 22 May 1932) [1] was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Lady Augusta Gregory (Author of Gods and Fighting Men)
Gregory, (Isabella) Augusta (1852-1932), Lady Gregory, writer, folklorist and patron of the arts, was born Isabella Augusta Persse at Roxborough House, Co. Galway, on 15 March 1852. She was the ninth of thirteen children (eight boys and five girls) of Dudley Persse and his second wife Frances (née Barry).
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Lady Augusta Gregory Lady Gregory, an Irish writer and playwright played a large role in the Irish Literary Renaissance through her translation of Irish legends and her peasant comedies. Lady Gregory's literary career began later in life after the death of her husband, contributing to the Irish Literary theatre (1892) and directing for the.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse, most commonly known as Lady Gregory, was an Irish writer, a playwright, and a translator. Her commitment to works in the Irish language was vital to the Irish literary revival of the late 1800s. With William Butler Yeats, she cofounded the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899; this later became the Abbey Theatre, famous for its production.