Becoming George
Subtitle: the life of Mrs. W.B. Yeats
By: Ann Saddlemyer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 808
Subjects: Yeats, Georgie, d. 1968; Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Marriage; Authors' spouses -- Ireland -- Biography; Married people -- Ireland -- Biography; Spiritualists -- Ireland -- Biography; Occultists -- Ireland -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "'I, the poet William Yeats ... Restored this tower for my wife George' claims the lovely six-line poem in which Yeats dedicates the renovation of Thoor Ballylee. But the poem's truth conceals another, and different truth - that they worked together at the restoration, and it was largely her vision and hands that created a dwelling from the former ruins. Just how symbolic this is, of the close but largely hidden collaboration between them, is revealed by this deeply-researched life of George Yeats - the first full-scale biography of a woman of remarkable gifts and generous self concealment." "For the first time, this woman is allowed to take centre stage. Drawing on memoirs and a wealth of unknown and unpublished sources, this biography by the distinguished scholar Ann Saddlemyer reveals someone much more significant than just 'Mrs. W.B. Yeats' - a personality at once visionary and practical, and an important figure in twentieth-century literary history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [660]-794) and index.