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2 de jun. de 2019 · Gonne was a celebrity after all - a wealthy Irish beauty and political rabblement rouser. Her affair with Millevoye didn’t exactly escape their “corridor gossip,” as Gonne called it. The best known among Maud Gonne’s suitors is, of course, William Butler Yeats, whom Gonne and her daughter Iseult referred to as “Poor Willie.”
20 de jul. de 2008 · DUBLIN. SO here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William Butler Yeats in 1908 by Maud Gonne, the beautiful, brainy feminist Irish revolutionary and object of Yeats ...
In April of 1916, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin, and brought an abrupt end to Maud Gonne’s marriage when John MacBride, as one of its leaders, was executed in the aftermath. Maud expressed to Yeats at the time her belief that in dying for Ireland, MacBride had left young Seán a name he could be proud of.
Maud Gonne werd geboren in Tongham, [1] in de buurt van Farnham ( Surrey ), als Edith Maud Gonne, de oudste dochter van Thomas Gonne (1835–1886) – kapitein bij het cavelerieregiment de 17th Lancers ( lansiers ), wiens voorouders afkomstig waren uit Caithness in Schotland – en Edith Frith Cook (1844–1871). Haar moeder stierf toen zij 4 ...
17 de jun. de 2015 · Maud Gonne: The 'Irish Joan of Arc'. Maud Gonne was born in Tongham, near Surrey, England in 1865 to Captain Thomas Gonne of the 17 th Light Dragoons and his wife Edith Firth Cook. Edith belonged to the wealthy Cooke family, manufacturers of silk, linen, and cotton goods. Her Grandfather was also head of a prosperous firm with houses in Oporto ...
Pandora, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 211 pages. In this biography, Margaret Ward gives the reader a portrait of Maud Gonne as a significant figure in Irish politics and as a remarkable woman. She dispels the popular myth that Maud was little more than a flamboyant beauty and the inspiration of W.B. Yeats's great love poetry.
Maud Gonne was the Irish revolutionary whom Yeats loved but who rejected his proposals of marriage. ‘ No Second Troy’ was written after the final rejection of Yeats’s love offer and sudden marriage to John MacBride, who, ironically was later made the martyr of Irish Freedom Movement by the efforts of Yeats himself.
