Arrington, Lauren (2020) ‘I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth’s novels’: Gender, Power and the Domestic in Lady Gregory’s Work. In: Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940. Cambridge University Press, pp. 196-211.

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Augusta Gregory used her power in the domestic sphere as a mechanism for effecting change in the public sphere. Her career as a writer was forged by her creative responses to her private life: marriage at the age of twenty-eight to William Gregory; an important love affair with Wilfred Scawen Blunt; the freedom and responsibility that came with being widowed at just thirty-nine years of age. Recently, with a focus on Gregory’s relationships with Sir William, Blunt and Gregory’s protégé, W. B. Yeats, Lucy McDiarmid shows how, ‘surrounded by men and pleasing them, Lady Gregory created a public voice for herself and entered the world of professional authorship’.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Miss Edgeworth’s novels’; Gender; Power; Domestic; Lady Gregory’s Work;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English
Item ID:	17707
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108616379.012
Depositing User:	Lauren Arrington
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2023 13:36
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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