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Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W. B. Yeats  
Author: Ann Saddlemyer
ISBN: 0198112327
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review


The San Francisco Chronicle
"In Saddlemyer, George Yeats has found a biographer perfectly suited to her.... A delight to read: authoritative, sympathetic and insightful."


John Banville, The New York Review of Books
"A profound, exhaustive, and richly evocative life of this truly remarkable woman.... The product, surely, of a lifetime of study."


Brenda Maddox, The Guardian
"Saddlemyer has at last delivered the life of this remarkable woman in encyclopaedic detail."


The Globe and Mail [Toronto]
"Saddlemyer's wise, majestic biography...is a masterpiece, an extraordinary achievement."


Book Description
Ann Saddlemyer's biography of W. B. Yeats's wife, George, portrays an extraordinarily talented, intelligent, and self-effacing woman, whose creative influence has never before been fully understood. She was wife and manager of a famous poet, and mother to his children, but in her own right also an inspired visionary and a practical woman of the arts. Georgie Hyde Lees was raised in London's literary salons, where arts, anthroposophy and the occult met. An accomplished linguist, art student and literary scholar, she married W. B. Yeats when she was 25, and he 52. Her supernatural "automatic writing" became the inspiration of Yeats's poetry and thought for the last 20 years of his life, yet she always concealed the depth of their collaboration. Close friend of many writers and poets, among them Frank O'Connor and Ezra Pound, she spent her long widowhood steering the "Yeats industry" and actively assisting younger scholars and writers. For the first time, this intelligent and creative woman is allowed to take center stage. Drawing on memoirs and a wealth of unknown and unpublished sources, this biography by the distinguished scholar Ann Saddlemyer reveals someone much more significant than just '"Mrs. W. B. Yeats"--a personality at once visionary and practical, and an important figure in twentieth-century literary history.




Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W. B. Yeats

FROM THE PUBLISHER

With this touching six-line poem. W. B. Yeats dedicated the renovation of Thoor Ballylee to his young wife. An extraordinarily talented woman. George Yeats was more than wife and manager of the famous poet. A champion of occult intelligence, she was friend and critic to writers such as Ezra Pound. Frank O'Connor, and Richard Ellmann. For the first time, this intelligent and creative woman takes centre stage in Ann Saddlemyer's lovingly detailed biography. Drawing on memoirs and a wealth of unknown and unpublished sources, a distinguished scholar of Irish Literature reveals the story of a fascinating and remarkable woman.

     



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