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This first volume of Lady Gregory's Shorter Writings covers the
years 1882-1900. Edited and introduced by James Pethica, it makes
available all the previously uncollected work she wrote for
publication during the period, including newly-discovered articles,
material that was never printed, and items that appeared
anonymously or pseudonymously. The volume begins with her first
independent publication, Arabi and His Household (1882), written in
support of the deposed leader of the Egyptian Nationalist
rebellion, who faced likely execution by the British. Gregory's
travel journalism and other occasional writings of the 1880s were
sufficient to catch the attention of Oscar Wilde, who praised her
"clever pen" and invited her to contribute to The Woman's World,
the periodical he edited. Also included here are more than a dozen
unpublished poems, often highly personal, written during her
travels to India and Ceylon, along with the sequence of twelve
sonnets she gave Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1883 as they ended their
clandestine affair. Writings from the early 1890s include one short
story set in Italy, and another with a plot her friend Henry James
briefly considered using as the basis for a novel. Gregory's
publications from the mid-1890s offer sharp new insight into her
growing interest in Irish folklore, her emergence as an Irish
nationalist, and her enthusiasm for the Irish language and the
Gaelic League. Key works include a previously unpublished pamphlet
on the inequities of Irish taxation, and Gregory's first
substantial folklore essays. The last writings in the volume
register her increasing centrality in the emergence of the Irish
Literary Theatre, her developing friendship and collaborations with
W.B.Yeats, and her growing confidence in her creative voice as she
began her rise to prominence.
The four short works collected in this book were among the
earliest plays to be authored collaboratively by W. B. Yeats and
Lady Gregory. Written in the pivotal years during which the "Irish
Literary Theatre" experiment of 1899 1901 began to evolve into what
would become the Abbey Theatre, they show both writers engaging
with questions central to the early Irish dramatic movement: How
should "Irishness" be represented on the stage? To what extent
should artists engage directly with Nationalist politics? And what
role might literature play in the creation of a new Ireland?
The manuscripts presented here chart the evolution of two plays
published over Yeats's name: "Cathleen ni Houlihan" the pair's most
successful collaboration, and the work that confirmed Yeats's
credentials as a Nationalist writer and the "peasant" farce "The
Pot of Broth." This book also includes manuscript material for "The
Country of the Young" and "Heads or Harps," which the writers left
unpublished and unproduced during their lifetimes."
Henry Stratford Persse was a customs official and distiller in the
town of Galway whose sons emigrated to Boston then New York. His
letters provide a striking account of Galway life, Irish
misgovernment and American democracy by a lively, unconventional
observer.
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