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Walter de la Mare, Bertha Georgie Yeats (née Hyde-Lees), William Butler Yeats, unknown woman, summer 1930; photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Georgie Hyde-Lees Yeats (born Bertha Hyde-Lees, 1892 – 1968) was the wife of the poet William Butler Yeats.
Dec 5, 2018 · Mere days into their honeymoon at the Ashdown Forest Hotel, Georgie (renamed George by her husband) must have had a ghostly suspicion—or perhaps simply seen the poorly hidden fact—that Yeats was still writing wistful letters to Iseult.
That September, Yeats proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), known as George, whom he had met through Olivia Shakespear. Despite warnings from her friends—"George ... you can't. He must be dead"—Hyde-Lees accepted, and the two were married on 20 October 1917.
May 18, 2011 · When George met Yeats in 1911, she was 18 and he 46—exactly the age her father would have been. Yeats was also charming and handsome, not wealthy but decidedly ambitious.
May 22, 1999 · Yeats had married the 25-year-old Englishwoman Georgina Hyde-Lees in October 1917, more or less on the rebound, when he was 52.
Oct 1, 2015 · Yeats and his new wife, George Hyde-Lees, worked with an architect to transform the tower into a sanctuary of inspiration, its walls and curtains awash in striking colors. The poet often wrote...
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Feb 22, 2013 · YEATS’S FIRST extant letters to his 24-year-old fiancee, Georgie Hyde Lees, were written from Coole. The 52-year-old suitor had travelled there from London to gain Lady Gregory’s blessing on his...
