Talk:Lady Gregory

message: *This article is part of WikiProject Irish literature. See that page for further information—Preceding unsigned comment added by Filiocht (talk • contribs) 13:01, 15 September 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The works of Lady Gregory marked with (e-book) are freely availables in electronic form from Project Gutenberg.  Follow the link, if you wish to retrieve them:
*Spreading the News (1904)
*The Rising of the Moon (1907)
*The Kiltartan Poetry Book (e-book)
*The Kiltartan History Book (e-book)
*New Irish Comedies (e-book)—Preceding unsigned comment added by Filiocht (talk • contribs) 16:16, 4 November 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Works

message: A worrying number of sources says she was born 5 March 1852.  How can we be sure she was born 15 March?  --  JackofOz (talk) 11:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth

message: This early introduction may have had a greater impact on her than it otherwise would because the house had no library and her mother ... forbade her to read novels until she was 18.
Can we have a cite for this? It's slightly contrary to what is written in a Master's thesis online: "Although Augusta never received any formal education, she learned to read by sitting in on her brothers' lessons, and she read voraciously. In her early teens she particularly enjoyed "Fenian books," which were collections of ballads written for the Young Irelanders ...[and]... epics like Sir Thomas Mallory's Morte D'Arthur." DrKiernan (talk) 17:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted, I removed the claim. Ceoil (talk) 22:27, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nice work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.101.134.34 (talk) 02:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forbidding mother 

message: I see almost no mention of her friendship with Yeats -- wasn't she his patron (or would it be matron)?  I took several Irish Literature classes with Maureen Waters at CUNY Queens College, and she often spoke of the closeness between them. --Magmagirl (talk) 13:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand. Yeats is mentioned throughout the article. DrKiernan (talk) 13:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, but not in the context of a close personal friendship. --Magmagirl (talk) 14:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: She did have a close relationship with yeats. He frequently visites her at coole and mentions him extensively in her diaries.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.155.160 (talk) 19:27, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So, do you have any reliable sources for this? If so we could add some details. Without it we can't verify it. ww2censor (talk) 19:34, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Friendship with W.B. Yeats 

message: I fixed a broken link to the Coole Park website. Unfortunately, I noticed that it does not—and according to wayback machine never did—say anything about her possessions having been auctioned off. Anyone with another source for that?
Also, since this is a FA, my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it with unwanted clutter without a discussion. :-) I came on an excerpt of a text by Yeats called "Dramatis Personae" in which he describes Lady Gregory, her family and Coole House in some detail. For example, we could add that among her nephews were Hugh Lane and John Shawe-Taylor [], that she had two sisters and seven brothers. Yeats also notes that Persse is a form of Percy and that the family is descended from a Duke of Northumbria (along with a quaint legend how they came to dwell at Roxborough). Any thoughts on this?
Finally, there is this review in a journal [] which contains some additional info on the Persse family, e.g. the name of her father and that it was a very protestant household.
Drow69 (talk) 17:04, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing ref and other stuff 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)  Vaticidalprophet 18:26, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Augusta, Lady Gregory →  – The subject of this article is known far-and-wide as "Lady Gregory".  It is by far most common. That’s how her name appears on the title pages and the covers of the books she has authored, which can be seen if you click on the blue links in this article's Published Works section — in all of them she is referred to as Lady Gregory. In her autobiography, Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography she is referred to as "Lady Gregory" by herself and others including George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats and Theodore Roosevelt. Recent books and articles refer to her as "Lady Gregory", including (to name only one) Lady Gregory: an Irish Life, by Judith Hill, (2011). "Wikipedia:Article titles" says: "Generally, article titles are based on what the subject is called in reliable sources. … the ideal article title precisely identifies the subject; it is short, natural, distinguishable and recognizable". I agree and think this article should follow that guidance. GümsGrammatiçus (talk) 17:07, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 11 March 2021