Lady Gregory
Lady Gregory | |
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folklorist | |
Years active | 1882–1932 |
Known for |
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Notable work | Irish Literary Revival |
Spouse |
Sir William Henry Gregory (m. 1880; died 1892) |
Children | Sir Hugh Lane (nephew) |
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (
Lady Gregory is mainly remembered for her work behind the Irish Literary Revival. Her home at Coole Park in County Galway served as an important meeting place for leading Revival figures, and her early work as a member of the board of the Abbey was at least as important as her creative writings for that theatre's development. Lady Gregory's motto was taken from Aristotle: "To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people."[2]
Biography
Early life and marriage
Gregory was born at Roxborough,
She married
Early writings
The Gregorys travelled in Ceylon, India, Spain, Italy and Egypt. While in Egypt Lady Gregory met, and in 1882 and 1883 had an affair with, the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, A Woman's Sonnets.[8][9]
Her earliest work to appear under her own name was Arabi and His Household (1882), a pamphlet—originally a letter to
She continued to write prose during the period of her marriage, including short stories she published under the name "Angus Grey."[13] During the winter of 1883, whilst her husband was in Ceylon, she worked on a series of memoirs of her childhood home, with a view to publishing them under the title An Emigrant's Notebook,[14] but this plan was abandoned. "An Emigrant's Note Book" remained unpublished until it appeared in Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893 (2018).[15] She wrote a series of pamphlets in 1887 called Over the River, in which she appealed for funds for the parish of St. Stephens in Southwark, south London.[16] She also wrote a number of short stories in the years 1890 and 1891, although these also never appeared in print. A number of unpublished poems from this period have also survived. When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park; there she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894.[17] She was to write later, "If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it. Loneliness made me rich—'full', as Bacon says."[18]
Cultural nationalism
A trip to
Towards the end of 1894, encouraged by the positive reception of the editing of her husband's autobiography, Lady Gregory turned her attention to another editorial project. She decided to prepare selections from Sir William Gregory's grandfather's correspondence for publication as Mr Gregory's Letter-Box 1813–30 (1898). This entailed her researching Irish history of the period; one outcome of this work was a shift in her political position, from the "soft"
Founding of the Abbey
Edward Martyn was a neighbour of Lady Gregory, and it was during a visit to his home, Tullira Castle, in 1896 that she first met W. B. Yeats.[24] Discussions between the three of them, over the following year or so, led to the founding of the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899.[25] Lady Gregory undertook fundraising, and the first programme consisted of Martyn's The Heather Field and Yeats's The Countess Cathleen.
The Irish Literary Theatre project lasted until 1901,
On 11 May 1904, the society formally accepted Horniman's offer of the use of the building. As Horniman was not normally resident in Ireland, the Royal Letters Patent required were paid for by her but granted in the name of Lady Gregory.[28] One of her own plays, Spreading the News, was performed on the opening night, 27 December 1904.[29] At the opening of Synge's The Playboy of the Western World in January 1907, a significant portion of the crowd rioted, causing the remainder of the performances to be acted out in dumbshow.[30] Lady Gregory did not think as highly of the play as Yeats did, but she defended Synge as a matter of principle. Her view of the affair is summed up in a letter to Yeats where she wrote of the riots: "It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."[31]
Later career
In July 1925, The Travelling Man by Lady Gregory was broadcast by the nascent British Broadcasting Company's 2LO (London) station.[32][33]
She remained an active director of the theatre until ill-health led to her retirement in 1928. During this time she wrote more than 19 plays, mainly for production at the Abbey.[19] Many of these were written in an attempted transliteration of the Hiberno-English dialect spoken around Coole Park that became widely known as Kiltartanese, from the nearby village of Kiltartan. Her plays had been among the most successful at the Abbey in the earlier years,[34] but their popularity declined. Indeed, the Irish writer Oliver St. John Gogarty once wrote "the perpetual presentation of her plays nearly ruined the Abbey".[35] In addition to her plays, she wrote a two-volume study of the folklore of her native area called Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland in 1920. She also played the lead role in three performances of Cathleen Ni Houlihan in 1919.
During her time on the board of the Abbey, Coole Park remained her home; she spent her time in Dublin staying in a number of hotels. For example, at the time of the 1911 national census, she was staying in a hotel at 16 South Frederick Street.[36] In these she dined frugally, often on food she had brought with her from home. She frequently used her hotel rooms to interview would-be Abbey dramatists and to entertain the company after opening nights of new plays. She spent many of her days working on her translations in the National Library of Ireland. She gained a reputation as being a somewhat conservative figure.[37] For example, when Denis Johnston submitted to the Abbey his first play, Shadowdance, it was rejected by Lady Gregory and returned to the author with "The Old Lady says No" written on the title page.[38] Johnston decided to rename the play, and The Old Lady Says 'No!' was eventually staged by the Gate Theatre in 1928.
Retirement and death
When she retired from the Abbey board, Lady Gregory returned to live in Galway, although she continued to visit Dublin regularly. The house and
In 1932, Lady Gregory, whom Shaw once described as "the greatest living Irishwoman",
Legacy
Her plays fell out of favour after her death, and are now rarely performed.[42] Many of the diaries and journals she kept for most of her adult life have been published, providing a rich source of information on Irish literary history during the first three decades of the 20th century.[43]
Her
In 2019, the New York Public Library announced a major exhibition on Gregory and her work, "All This Mine Alone: Lady Gregory and the Irish Literary Revival," to be co-curated by James Pethica and Colm Toíbín. The exhibition opened in March 2020 but closed do to the global pandemic; an online version remains available. In conjunction with the exhibition, The Irish Repertory Theatre of New York and the Druid Theatre of Galway offered a major revival of some of Gregory's plays. In November 2020 it was announced that Trinity College Dublin, whose library's forty busts previously represented men only was commissioning four additional busts of women and that one of them would be a bust of Lady Gregory.[47] In 2023 Gregory was the subject of a a two-part RTÉ documentary starring Miriam Margolyes and Senator Lynn Ruane, and featuring commentary from Roy Foster, James Pethica, Judith Hill, Melissa Sihra, and other Gregory scholars.
Published works, collaborations and translations
- Arabi and His Household (1882)[48]
- Over the River (1888)[49]
- A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin (1893)[50] (anonymously)
- Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G., Formerly Member of Parliament and Sometime Governor of *Ceylon: An Autobiography (editor 1894)[51]
- Mr. Gregory's Letter Box 1813–1830 (editor 1898)[52]
- Casadh an t-súgáin; or, The Twisting of the Rope (translator 1902)[53]
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster (Irish folk tales 1902)[54]
- Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory (1903)[55][56]
- Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danann and of the Fianna of Ireland (1904)[57]
- Kincora: A Drama in Three Acts (1905)[58]
- Spreading the News, The Rising of the Moon By Lady Gregory. The Poorhouse by Lady Gregory and Douglas Hyde (1906)[59]
- The Hyacinth Galvey: A Comedy (1906)[60]
- A Book of Saints and Wonders, Put Down Here by Lady Gregory According to the Old Writings and the Memory of the People of Ireland (1907)[61]
- Seven Short Plays: Spreading the News. Hyacinth Halvey. The Rising of the Moon. The Jackdaw. The Workhouse Ward. The Travelling Man. The Gaol Gate (1909)[62]
- The Kiltartan History Book (1909)[63]
- The Kiltartan Molière: The Miser. The Doctor in Spite of Himself. The Rogueries of Scapin. Translated by Lady Gregory (1910)[64]
- Spreading the News (1911)[65]
- The Kiltartan Wonder Book by Lady Gregory (1911)[66]
- Irish Folk-History Plays, 1st series. The Tragedies: Grania – Kincora—Dervorgilla (1912)[67]
- Irish Folk-History Plays, 2nd series: The Tragic-Comedies: The Canavans – The White Cockade – The Deliverer (1912)[68]
- New Comedies: The Bogie Men; The Full Moon; Coats; Damer's Gold; McDonough's Wife (1913)[69]
- Damer's Gold: A Comedy in Two Acts (1913)[70]
- Coats (1913)[71]
- Our Irish Theatre – A Chapter of Autobiography (1913)[72]
- The Unicorn from the Stars: And Other Plays, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory (1915)[73]
- Shanwalla (1915)[74]
- The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children (1916)[75]
- The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish (1919)[76]
- The Dragon: A Wonder Play in Three Acts (1920)[77]
- Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland Collected and Arranged by Lady Gregory: With Two Essays and Notes by W.B. Yeats (1920)[78]
- Hugh Lane's Life and Achievement, with Some Account of the Dublin Galleries. With Illustrations (1921)[79]
- The Image and Other Plays (Hanranhan's Ghost; Shanwalla; The Wrens(1922)[80]
- Three Wonder Plays: The Dragon. Aristotle's Bellows. The Jester (1922)[81]
- Plays in Prose and Verse: Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend, by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory (1922) [82]
- The Story Brought by Brigit (1924)[83]
- Mirandolina (1924)[84]
- On the Racecourse (1926)[85]
- Three Last Plays: Sancho's Master. Dave. The Would-Be Gentleman (1928)[86]
- My First Play (Colman and Guair) (1930)[87]
- Coole (1931)[88]
- Lady Gregory's Journals (1947)[89]
- Seventy Years, 1852-1922, Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory (1974)[90]
- The Journals. Part 1. 10 October 1916 – 24 February 1925 (1978)[91]
- The Journals. Part 2. 21 February 1925 – 9 May 1932 (1987)[92]
- Lady Gregory's Diaries 1892-1902 (1996)[93]
- Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893 (2018)[94]
See also
- Cathleen Ní Houlihan
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- ^ Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893, ed. James Pethica (Oxford 2018).
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- Lady Gregory, Augusta, ed. (1898), Mr. Gregory's Letter Box 1813–1830
- Lady Gregory, Augusta, Baile Átha Cliath An clo-cumann
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1903) [1902], Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster (2nd ed.)
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1903), Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory, Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, and co.
- ^ "Review of Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory". The Athenaeum (3943): 648. 23 May 1903.
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1904), Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danann and of the Fianna of Ireland
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1905), Kincora: A Drama in Three Acts
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta; Hyde, Douglas (1906), Spreading the News, The Rising of the Moon. By Lady Gregory. The Poorhouse. By Lady Gregory and Douglas Hyde, Dublin Maunsel
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1906), The Hyacinth Galvey: A Comedy, New York, J. Quinn
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1907), A Book of Saints and Wonders, Put Down Here by Lady Gregory According to the Old Writings and the Memory of the People of Ireland
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1909), Seven Short Plays: Spreading the News. Hyacinth Halvey. The Rising of the Moon. The Jackdaw. The Workhouse Ward. The Travelling Man. The Gaol Gate
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1926) [1909], The Kiltartan History Book, illustrated by Robert Gregory (Second, enlarged ed.), Dublin Maunsel
- Lady Gregory, Augusta
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1911), Spreading the News
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1911), The Kiltartan Wonder Book by Lady Gregory, illustrated by Margaret Gregory
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1912), Irish Folk-History Plays, 1st series. The Tragedies: Grania – Kincora – Dervorgilla
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1912), Irish Folk-History Plays, 2nd series: The Tragic-Comedies : The Canavans – The White Cockade – The Deliverer
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1913), New Comedies: The Bogie Men; The Full Moon; Coats; Damer's Gold; McDonough's Wife
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1913), Damer's Gold: A Comedy in Two Acts
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1913), Coats
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1913), Our Irish Theatre – A Chapter of Autobiography
- Lady Gregory, Augusta (1915), The Unicorn from the Stars: And Other Plays
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1915), Shanwalla
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1916), The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1919), The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1920), The Dragon: A Wonder Play in Three Acts, New York, G. P. Putnam
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1920), Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland Collected and Arranged by Lady Gregory: With Two Essays and Notes by W.B. Yeats
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1921), Hugh Lane's Life and Achievement, with Some Account of the Dublin Galleries. With Illustrations
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1922), The Image and Other Plays (Hanranhan's Ghost; Shanwalla; The Wrens)
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1922), Three Wonder Plays: The Dragon. Aristotle's Bellows. The Jester
- Lady Gregory, Augusta (1922), Plays in Prose and Verse: Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1924), The Story Brought by Brigit
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1924), Mirandolina
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1926), On the Racecourse
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1928), Three Last Plays: Sancho's Master. Dave. The Would-Be Gentleman
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1930), My First Play (Colman and Guaire)
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1931), Coole
- ^ *Lady Gregory, Augusta (1947), Robinson, Lennox (ed.), Lady Gregory's Journals
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1974), Smythe, Colin (ed.), Seventy Years, 1852-1922, Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1978), Murphy, Daniel J. (ed.), The Journals. Part 1. 10 October 1916 – 24 February 1925
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1987), Murphy, Daniel J. (ed.), The Journals. Part 2. 21 February 1925 – 9 May 1932
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (1996), Pethica, James (ed.), Lady Gregory's Diaries 1892-1902
- ^ Lady Gregory, Augusta (2018), Pethica, James (ed.), Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893
Sources
- Coxhead, Elizabeth (1961), Lady Gregory: a literary portrait, Harcourt, Brace & World
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Further reading
- Kohfeldt, Mary Lou (1984), Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance, André Deutsch, ISBN 0-689-11486-9
- McDiarmid, Lucy; Waters, Maureen (1996), "Lady Gregory: Selected Writings", Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, ISBN 0-14-018955-6
- Saddlemyer, Ann; Smythe, Colin, eds. (1987), Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, ISBN 0-86140-111-5
- Napier, Taura (February 2001), Seeking a Country: Literary Autobiographies of Irish Women". University Press of America, 2001;, ISBN 0-7618-1934-7
- Smythe, Colin (2003), A Guide to Coole Park, Co. Galway, Home of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, ISBN 0-86140-382-7
- Lady Gregory at Irish Writers Online, archived from the original on 19 November 2004, retrieved 4 November 2004
- Boland, Eavan, ed. (2007), Irish Writers on Writing featuring Augusta, Lady Gregory, Trinity University Press
- Plays Produced by the Abbey Theatre Co. and its Predecessors, with dates of First Performances, retrieved 4 November 2004
External links
- Works by Lady Gregory at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Lady Augusta Gregory at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Lady Gregory at Internet Archive
- Works by Lady Gregory at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Lady Gregory Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
- "Archival material relating to Lady Gregory". UK National Archives.
- Portraits of Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Lady Gregory at Library of Congress, with 108 library catalogue records
- Archival Material at Leeds University Library
- Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. pp. – via Wikisource. . . Dublin: