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    ‘I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth’s novels’: Gender, Power and the Domestic in Lady Gregory’s Work


    Arrington, Lauren (2020) ‘I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth’s novels’: Gender, Power and the Domestic in Lady Gregory’s Work. In: Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940. Cambridge University Press, pp. 196-211.

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    Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108616379.012

    Abstract

    Augusta Gregory used her power in the domestic sphere as a mechanism for effecting change in the public sphere. Her career as a writer was forged by her creative responses to her private life: marriage at the age of twenty-eight to William Gregory; an important love affair with Wilfred Scawen Blunt; the freedom and responsibility that came with being widowed at just thirty-nine years of age. Recently, with a focus on Gregory’s relationships with Sir William, Blunt and Gregory’s protégé, W. B. Yeats, Lucy McDiarmid shows how, ‘surrounded by men and pleasing them, Lady Gregory created a public voice for herself and entered the world of professional authorship’.
    Item Type: Book Section
    Keywords: Miss Edgeworth’s novels’; Gender; Power; Domestic; Lady Gregory’s Work;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English
    Item ID: 17707
    Identification Number: 10.1017/9781108616379.012
    Depositing User: Lauren Arrington
    Date Deposited: 17 Oct 2023 13:36
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/17707
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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