Lady Gregory's journals
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Lady Gregory's journals
(The Coole edition, 14,
Colin Smythe, 1978-1987
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- v. 2
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Library & Science Information Center, Osaka Prefecture University
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Note
Contents: v. 1. Books one to twenty-nine, 10 October 1916-24 February 1925 -- v. 2. Books thirty to forty-four, 21 February 1925-9 May 1932
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Vol. 2 with an afterword by Colin Smythe
Contents of Works
- v. 1. Books one to twenty-nine, 10 October 1916-24 February 1925
- v. 2. Books thirty to forty-four, 21 February 1925-9 May 1932
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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v. 1 ISBN 9780900675911
Description
Lennox Robinson's selection from Lady Gregory's Journals was first published in 1946 as the culmination of many years' nego-tiations between the Trustees of Lady Gregory's Estate and her London publishers, Putnam & Co., but it was only a fraction of the material that Lady Gregory had expected would be published when she sent the typescripts over to London in 1931. Since the publication of that small selection (which appeared in the U.S.A. in 1947), no one saw the complete typescripts until they were purchased as part of the Lady Gregory archives by the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library in 1964. After being cata-logued, they were made available to scholars. Now at last, Daniel Murphy's edition is available in two volumes, the first containing Books 1 to 29 and the second Books 30 to 44. The Journals contain fascinating accounts of Lady Gregory's efforts to get back the Lane Pictures for Ireland, the Troubles, her activities at the Abbey Theatre, her life at Coole and her determination to keep it for her grandson Richard, as well as recording her friendship with W. B. Yeats, one of the most important and influential in English literature: thus the Journals are important for social and political as well as for artistic reasons, and are a prime source for all students of the literature and history of Ireland. They also provide a remarkable insight into the life and work of a woman whom Bernard Shaw called 'one of the most remarkable theatrical talents of our time' and 'the greatest living Irishwoman'.
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v. 2 ISBN 9780900675928
Description
Lennox Robinson's selection from Lady Gregory's Journals was pub-lished in 1946. It only contained a small fraction of the total material that she typed out (editing as she did so) from her manuscript diaries. In 1964 the bulk of Lady Gregory's archives were bought by the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, and the typescripts of her diaries, which formed part of the archive, were prepared for publica-tion by the present editor, Daniel Murphy. The first volume of this edition, containing Books 1 to 29, was published in 1978. This second volume, contain-ing Books 30 to 44, not only completes the typed version of her diaries (which ended in November 1930), but also adds the unedited text of the manuscript diary she kept from then until a fortnight before her death. It describes her continuing efforts to get the Lane Pictures returned to Ireland, the passing of Coole into the hands of the Irish Forestry Depart-ment, Abbey Theatre problems, the row over Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and the break with him over its refusal of The Silver Tassie, Denis Johnston's connection with the Abbey as producer and playwright (with illu-minating insights into the Abbey's refusal of The Old Lady Says 'No!'), and other controversial matters. Plagued by rheumatism and twice operated on for cancer, Lady Greg-ory was nevertheless determined not to give in to old age, and she relates the daily battle with her infirmities with objectivity. Thus, with W. B. Yeats's account of her last hours, 'The Death of Lady Gregory', published here for the first time, the reader is given a far more complete picture of the last years of Lady Gregory's life than has hitherto been available.Appended to this is an Afterword by Colin Smythe which describes the problems relating to the publication of the Journals and Autobiography following Lady Gregory's death.
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