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Literary responses | Helen Waddell | This book too brought many letters of praise: from Rose Macaulay
, Æ
, Walter de la Mare
, and Stanley Baldwin
. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973. 116-17 |
Literary responses | Helen Waddell | HW
treasured a letter in which Michael Sadleir
responded to her novel, telling her he found it hard to write without hyperbole. Of course I expected great things, but nothing—nothing approaching what I found. It... |
Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | The volume was well-received by EGB
's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats
wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and... |
Literary responses | Eva Gore-Booth | This poem drew several tributes from friends. Æ
(George Russell
) wrote: I am delighted with your poem. You have slipped into it at last—the Celtic manner . . . . It ought to... |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | George Russell
wrote KT
a complimentary letter in response to this volume: I don't know how you manage to keep so sunny all through . . . I would love to write cheerful poetry more... |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT
was revered as the next Catholic
woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti
. She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and... |
Occupation | P. L. Travers | Her friend Æ
introduced her to the editor of this journal, A. R. Orage
. She also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, of which T. S. Eliot
too was a member. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne, 1991. 31 Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, 1999, pp. 19-24. 21 |
Occupation | John Millington Synge | In September 1905, JMS
, along with Yeats
and Lady Gregory
, became directors of the company. George Russell
and Fred Ryan
were also administrators for the Irish National Theatre Society
. Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982. 11-12 Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi. xxiv Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1994. 156 |
politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | The journal, which was the first women's newspaper in Ireland, issued its first number this November, though CCM
did not begin to publish articles in it until March 1909. Other contributors included Katharine Tynan
,... |
Author summary | Eva Gore-Booth | In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB
wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan
, Æ (... |
Publishing | P. L. Travers | For sixteen years from 1933, PLT
wrote for The New English Weekly, edited by A. R. Orage
(to whom her friend Æ
introduced her). Her work for this journal consisted primarily of drama criticism... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | They show increasing awareness of time and time's passing: in this volume KT
expresses regret for having missed, by her absence in England, the last moments of some of her Irish friends' lives. Nearly all... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | She limited her selection to Irish lyrical poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, excluding political poems and poems either derived from English or already well-known to English audiences. Her wide range of poets included... |
Textual Features | Augusta Gregory | The play, which grew out of a story told to Gregory by Æ
, revolves around a series of characters who reveal their dreams only to see them crumble before reality. |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | AG
edited a collection of essays protesting against British imperialism: Ideals in Ireland with contributions from W. B. Yeats
, Douglas Hyde
, Standish O'Grady
, and Æ
. Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 1987, pp. 143-62. 150 Mattar, Sinéad Garrigan. “’Wage for Each People Her Hand Has Destoyed’: Lady Gregory’s Colonial Nationalism”. Irish University Review, Vol. 34 , No. 1, 1 Mar. 2004– 2024, pp. 49-66. 63 |
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