augustagregory

A formidable lady

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• beachcomber australia said:

  Portrait by John Butler Yeats in 1903
  via Patrick Chartrain

• beachcomber australia said:

  Here she is at The Peerage (including an 1893 portrait) ...
  
  Isabella Augusta Persse was born on 15 March 1852.1 She was the daughter of Dudley Persse and Frances Barry.3 She married Rt. Hon. Sir William Henry Gregory, son of Robert Gregory and Elizabeth O'Hara, on 4 March 1880.1 She died on 22 May 1932 at age 80.
  Isabella Augusta Persse usually went by her middle name of Augusta.2 From 4 March 1880, her married name became Gregory.
  Yeats wrote 'she had made the people part of her soul.1' She was co-founder of Abbey Theatre, Dublin.1 She was a playwright.
  
  See - www.thepeerage.com/p45356.htm

• beachcomber australia said:

  The NLI catalogue says the photo was taken in 1911 during an American tour. I wonder if she is dressed as some character?
  
  ... In 1911–12 she accompanied the Abbey players on an American tour and oversaw the response to protests organised by Irish-American activists such as John Devoy (qv) against the staging of the ‘Playboy’. During this visit to America she had a brief affair with John Quinn (qv) and discovered the profits obtainable by lecturing to American audiences; she returned to America for a lecture tour in 1913. The ‘Playboy’ tour of America also gave rise to her semi-official and decidedly selective history of the company, Our Irish theatre (1913), written in the form of letters to her grandson Richard (b. 1909). ...
  From - www.dib.ie/biography/gregory-isabella-augusta-a3622

• beachcomber australia said:

  Via Trove, "Riotous scenes" in New York, 1911 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167004024?searchTerm=A...

• O Mac said:

  Coole portrait.