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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Irish writer and playwright who, by her translations of Irish legends, her peasant comedies and fantasies based on folklore, and her work for the Abbey Theatre, played a considerable part in the late 19th-century Irish literary renascence. In 1880 she married Sir.
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Lady Gregory was born Augusta Persse at her family's Co. Galway Big House, Roxborough, in 1852. In 1880, she married Sir William Gregory of Coole Park outside Gort, Co. Galway; he was (like her own family) Unionist in politics, and his record during the Famine was rather disturbing.
May 20, 2020 · The author of 42 plays, a book of sonnets, a translator, a folklorist, and co-founder of Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory (Persse) was born in 1852 and has...
Gregory, (Isabella) Augusta (1852–1932), Lady Gregory, writer, folklorist and patron of the arts, was born Isabella Augusta Persse at Roxborough House, Co. Galway, on 15 March 1852. She was the ninth of thirteen children (eight boys and five girls) of Dudley Persse and his second wife Frances (née Barry).
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse, most commonly known as Lady Gregory, was an Irish writer, a playwright, and a translator. Her commitment to works in the Irish language was vital to the Irish literary revival of the late 1800s.
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Mar 10, 2020 · Lady Gregory, unsung hero of the Irish Literary Revival. As a folklorist, playwright and theatre manager, she had a profound influence on modern Irish literature. “ALL THIS mine alone.”.
