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 |
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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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