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Topic: Elizabeth Yeats


In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  Elizabeth I, queen of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
When Elizabeth succeeded her sister to the throne in 1558, religious strife, a huge government debt, and failures in the war with France had brought England’s fortunes to a low ebb.
Elizabeth had many suitors, including King Philip II of Spain; Francis, duke of Alençon and Anjou; and her own favorite, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester.
Elizabeth engaged in a long series of diplomatic maneuvers against England’s old enemy, France, and the new enemy, Spain, but for 30 years she managed to keep the country at peace.
www.bartleby.com /65/el/Elizbet1Eng.html   (945 words)

  
 Personalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Yeats fell in love with her and was to be tormented for years by her staunch independence and rebellious nature.
Elizabeth Yeats had agreed to publish a collection of Russell's poetry and began to set the type without first conferring with WBY about the quality of the work.
DeLury, to whom the letters were addressed, was a collector of Irish literature and Elizabeth Yeats and her Cuala Press were printing some of the most beautifully designed first editions of Irish Literature at the time.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/zyperson.htm   (3189 words)

  
 Mi Lee
However, Elizabeth did not always defer to her brother in everything; in many ways her strong personality and success as a craftswoman, despite her sex, was a great contribution to the women’s movement.
Elizabeth Yeats’s most obvious contribution to the women’s movement, however, lay in her very relationship to the Cuala Press, as its founder and chief.
Elizabeth Yeats’s influence in Ireland had been considerable too, and her work with the Cuala Press was a masterpiece of its own kind.
www.stanford.edu /group/ww1/spring2000/MiLee/cuala2.html   (3208 words)

  
 snark-online.de
Elizabeth Cullingford took up this point in her book and tried to show that O`Brien was not right in just stating that Yeats was a fascist.
Yeats was in favour of the Treaty and so he took the chance and served for six years.
Yeats had to realize that Fascism as it was practised by the Blueshirts could not lead to his desired state of conservatism and liberalism.
www.daeva.de /snark/yeats.php   (3999 words)

  
 William Butler Yeats Collection
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of four children born to Susan Pollexfen and John Butler Yeats.
Yeats agreed and in 1903-4 he traveled to America appearing at most of the major American colleges and universities, clubs, and societies.
Letters to Yeats are grouped together in a single folder and a lively correspondence between Yeats and Thomas Sturge Moore carried out between 1901 and 1936, is present at the end of the series.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/yeats.wb.html   (1299 words)

  
 Yeats of Aberdeen, Scotland
"Yeats" seems to be more common in the 18th cent.
Barbara Yeats - "Yeats" in death notice 1791, and her grave at Nigg Bay, but "Yates" in family Bible when she was alive.
A "Miss Yeats" witnessed the baptism of Elizabeth Gibbon 1770.
humphrysfamilytree.com /Yeats   (368 words)

  
 Unseen Hands: Elizabeth Corbet Yeats
The first press founded by Elizabeth Yeats was named for the Lady Emer, renowned in the Irish epics for her beauty and artistic skills.
Yeats had been a member of William Morris's circle in London, and was inspired by his social and political ideas, and more generally by both the Arts and Crafts revival and the Celtic Renaissance of the late nineteenth century.
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats is at the iron hand-press; Beatrice Cassidy, standing, is rolling out ink, and Esther Ryan is correcting proofs at the table.
libweb2.princeton.edu /rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/printers/yeats.html   (341 words)

  
 Yeats Yellow Hair -- Recommendations and Resources
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868 1940) was born at 23 Fitzroy Road, London.
She was the daughter of the Irish artist John Butler Yeats and sister of W. B., Jack and Susan Yeats.
Elizabeth was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/183/yeats-yellow-hair.html   (679 words)

  
 Published by women
Elizabeth Nutt was a printer in the Savoy, but also had a bookseller's shop at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet Street, as shown by the list of books sold by her at the end of this volume.
Elizabeth Newbery was the wife of Francis Newbery, the nephew of John Newbery, the famous publisher of children's books.
Elizabeth Yeats had been a pupil of Emery Walker and of William Morris.
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/women/publishedby.html   (512 words)

  
 Yeats Infection -- Recommendations and Resources
Yeats is the surname of a notable Irish family:
Susan Yeats (1866 – 1949), known as Lily, was born in County Sligo, Ireland.
She was the daughter of John Butler Yeats and the sister of W. B., Jack and Elizabeth Yeats.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/183/yeats-infection.html   (432 words)

  
 Press Releases
In April 1996, the artist Anne Yeats donated the Archive of her uncle Jack B. Yeats to the National Gallery of Ireland with the express wish that a special archive room be created to contain the material.
To celebrate the opening of the Archive, a small exhibition of 20 paintings and drawings by Anne Yeats, covering four important themes in her work, is on view in Room 20 of the Milltown Wing, just off the Yeats Museum.
Her brother Michael Yeats has donated a large collection of her personal sketchbooks, and examples of these are shown in the exhibition.
www.nationalgallery.ie /html/press26a.html   (446 words)

  
 fiddlerSligo
In 1868, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (Lollie) was born.
In 1870, Robert Corbet Yeats (Bobbie) was born, and in 1871 John Butler Yeats (Jack) was born.
William Butler Yeats is buried at the foot of Benbulben which rises majestically out of the north Sligo plain to a height of 1,725 feet.
www.sheilascorner.com /irishfiddler.shtml   (659 words)

  
 Dun Emer Cuala Press Books at the University of Florida
The Yeats family was involved from the beginning, Lily with the textiles and Elizabeth with the press, and W. as the literary editor
In 1908, Elizabeth Yeats took over the press and renamed it Cuala as Evelyn Gleeson retained the Dun Emer name for the textile aspect of the enterprise.
After Elizabeth Corbet's Yeats death on January 16, 1940, the press was managed by Georgie Yeats, W. Yeats' wife.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/rarebook/cuala/cuala.htm   (941 words)

  
 A Vision of Yeats- Yeats and his Circle
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Lily Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson founded the Dun Emer Press and Industries in 1902 with the purpose of giving training and employment to Irish girls.
Following Elizabeth’s death, the press continued under the direction of Georgiana “George” Yeats, the wife of Yeats.
The press was reorganized in 1969 by directors Michael B. Yeats, Anne Yeats, Thomas Kinsella, and Liam Miller.
www.uwm.edu /Libraries/special/exhibits/yeats/circle/circle_dun.htm   (367 words)

  
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"William Butler Yeats and the `Bounty of Sweden'." Homage to Ireland: Aspects of Culture, Literature and Language.
"W. Yeats: The Poetics of the Visible and the Invisible." Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture.
"Yeats and Cataclysms: What Form of Art for the End of One World and the Birth of Another?" Between Time and Eternity: Nine Essays on W. Yeats and His Contemporaries Hofmannsthal and Blok.
www.csun.edu /~hceng029/yeats/wby.book.art.html   (2540 words)

  
 Elizabeth Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868–1940), known as Lolly, was born at 23 Fitzroy Road, London.
She was the daughter of the Irish artist John Butler Yeats and sister of W.
Yeats was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Yeats   (297 words)

  
 William Butler Yeats
Yeats, as a writer who devoted himself to Irish culture and literature, could be considered a postcolonial figure, this essay contends.
A review of Brenda Maddox's biography of Yeats "George's Ghosts: A New Life of W B Yeats," in The New Statesman, June 21, 1999.
The Yeats manuscripts at the University of Indiana
www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Yeats.htm   (631 words)

  
 SIMPSON/ HARTWELL/ HALL & TOMLINSON FAMILY
Elizabeth Yeats had been baptised at Peopleton, Worcestershire on 13.5.1735.
Elizabeth Hartwell was baptised at Badsey on 13.5.1787.
Louisa Hall was born on 14.12.1840 at Dumbleton, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hall.
www.badsey.net /received/SIMPSON.htm   (1199 words)

  
 April 2003 Blueprints
The Dun Emer Press was part of the Industries, and it was managed by the Yeats sisters while W. Yeats acted as editor at his sisters' press.
Elizabeth Yeats died in 1940 and the press was continued by William Butler Yeats' widow, but the publication of books was suspended in 1946.
Yeats' death in 1968 that her children, Michael and Anne, decided to revive the publication of books.
www.library.villanova.edu /blueprints/2003/Apr03index.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Yeats and the Visual Arts - Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux - Syracuse University Press Syracuse New York
She argues that the analogies Yeats often used between the visual arts and literature provide an apt way to characterize his own work.
In the early verse, the governing analogy is poem-as-painting; later, influenced by his work in the theater, Yeats writes poems analogous to the three-dimensional forms of sculpture.
Her central thesis [is] that Yeats's conception of the poem as picture gradually gives way to his conception of the poem as sculpture.
www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu /spring-2003-catalog/yeats.html   (272 words)

  
 Companies
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940; Yeats, Lily, 1866-1949; Yeats family; Cuala Press--History; Cuala Industries--History; Private presses--Ireland--History--19th century; Private presses--Ireland--History--20th century.
The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats.
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940; Yeats, Lily, 1866-1949; Yeats family; Cuala Press--History; Cuala Industries--History; Private presses--Ireland--History--19th century; Private presses--Ireland--History--20th century; Embroidery industry--Ireland--History--19th century; Embroidery industry--Ireland--History--20th century.
www.kipnotes.com /Women_Companies.htm   (5258 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie: Yeats' family treasures to go on display
The material will be given to the Library on temporary loan by Yeats’ son, Michael for the forthcoming exhibition, ’Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats’ due to open later this year.
The Yeats manuscript collection is one of the largest literary collections in the National Library, and the largest collection of Yeats manuscripts in a single institution anywhere in the world.
Born in 1865, Yeats was a leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a founder of the Abbey Theatre.
www.breakingnews.ie /2006/01/10/story238835.html   (552 words)

  
 Lawrence Robert
Elizabeth was maybe the daughter of Humphrey Nichols.
John Yeats was a witness to George Lawrence's will in 1752 with Robert Lawrence and Thomas Lawrence.
Thomas Yeates, the river pocoson, Luke Collins, and William Bailey, and this include 18 ac for Sarah Kerr, daughter of Manning's wife, 2.
www.sallysfamilyplace.com /Rayner/page84.htm   (2641 words)

  
 Yeats Family Genealogy Forum (25 Latest Messages)
Re: Susannah Yeates of Bertie co. NC - Mary Yates Villeret 8/12/05
Yeats in England - Richard, Elizabeth (1700s - and beyond) - Clare Cawthra 4/06/05
Re: Yeats of Falkirk, Kilsyth, Scotland - d.slattery 1/11/04
genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/latest.cgi?yeats   (210 words)

  
 De Lury Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
He was educated at the University of Toronto where he received his B.A. (1890) and his M.A. He became: a mathematics lecturer in 1892, Head of the Mathematics Department in 1919, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1922 at the University of Toronto.
De Lury was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1918 and he was the author of several algebra and arithmetic textbooks.
The fonds consists of original and copies of letters from Elizabeth C. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, J.B. Yeats, George Russell and others to Professor A.T. De Lury relating to Irish literature, poetry, and Irish politics.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/80-016.htm   (845 words)

  
 YeatsRL
The standard of Yeats criticism seems pretty dire at the moment, so range widely to find something you like.
Nicholas Grene, 'Yeats and the Re-Making of Synge', in
Interesting to see the limits of MacNeice's sensitivity to Yeats -- the first monograph of its type, really, and still a provocative read.
users.ox.ac.uk /~bras0512/YeatsRL.html   (273 words)

  
 "Never give all the heart...
Typescripts and page proofs of works and letters from the author make up the bulk of the William Butler Yeats Collection.
By 1889 Yeats was able to publish an entire volume of poems,
, Yeats fell immediately in love with her and she became a fixture in his imagination and poetry.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00248.xml   (1300 words)

  
 ElizabethGenco.com » 2005 » August » 19
Filed under: folklorish, raving, reading — Elizabeth @ 12:54 pm
So, so sorry for the dorky all-caps, there, but this, man… this is big news (again, news to me, though it was announced a month ago):
The New York Public Library Acquires Important–Largely Unpublished–W. Yeats Manuscripts
www.elizabethgenco.com /2005/08/19   (152 words)

  
 Palgrave Macmillan : Catalogue Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Yeats and Maud Gonne: Marriage and the Astrological Record, 1908-09; E.Heine
In Fundamental Agreement: Yeats and Wyndham Lewis; P.Caracciolo and P.Edwards
Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives; G.Lewis, The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala; J.Hardwick, The Yeats Sisters: A Biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats; J.Pethica
www.palgrave.com /products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0333716396   (316 words)

  
 Flyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
'The admirable Yeats Annual...a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge.
Since 1982 the vade mecumof Yeats.' - Bernard O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement
Yeats Annual is the leading international research-level journal devoted to the greatest twentieth-century poet in the English language.
www.palgrave.com /flyer/flyer.asp?is=0333716396   (124 words)

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