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A Servant of the Queen - Reminiscences (Paperback, New edition)
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A Servant of the Queen - Reminiscences (Paperback, New edition)
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Maud Gonne MacBride is part of Irish history: her foundation of the
women's group Inghinidhe na hEireann. the Daughters of Ireland, in
1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of politics in
the twentieth century to Irishwomen. Still remembered in Ireland
for the fiery, emotive public speeches she made on behalf of the
suffering - those evicted from their homes in the West of Ireland,
the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wight, indeed all those
whom she saw as victims of the imperialism she constantly opposed -
she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B.
Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems. He wrote poems to and
about her after they first met in 18S9, and he continued to do so
in his middle age and up to his seventies. when he remembered her
'straight back and arrogant head', her gentleness, and her
wildness. And something of those extremes in her character becomes
clear in her autobiography, A Servant of the Queen, which brings
her life up to her marriage to John MaeBride in 1903. This is no
orthodox autobiography: it selects episodes - many of them highly
dramatic - in her life rather than providing a more pedestrian
progress through all its events. The book conveys her romanticism
and suggests how wide a range of activities she pursued as a
fervent nationalist, persuasive propagandist, and successful
journalist. Her sheer courage emerges clearly but though she held
mere convention in contempt she had to exercise some discretion in
writing these memoirs. The editors have identified some hitherto
unnamed characters and established the identity of persons given
other names in earlier editions: they have indicated some of the
episodes in Maud Gonne's life that she was obliged to omit in the
first edition (1937). A Servant of the Queen is written in a
characteristically dashing conversational style and reveals the
complexity of Maud Gonne's character: it is a most readable account
of aspects of a vital, exciting life which has maintained its
interest to historians and students. In this new edition, the
editors, who compiled The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938, have
corrected the order of the chapters so that they are now arranged
according to the sequence of events, and have added a chronology,
notes on the principal figures, and an index.
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