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| Yeats and Women | | Author: | Deirdre Toomey | ISBN: | 031217408X | Format: | Handover | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | | | | | | | | Book Review | | | Yeats and Women FROM THE PUBLISHER This revised and enlarged edition of Yeats and Women collects eight essays on Yeats's relationships with women as friends, lovers, muses, collaborators. The essays cover sexuality and its dynamic in Yeats's writing: his attitude to feminism, the "feminist occult" and his wife's mediumship; his relationships with Maude Gonne, Dorothea Hunter, Olivia Shakespear, Florence Farr, Iseult Game and George Yeats. Illustrations include the tomb of Maud Gonne's first child, the 67-year-old Lady Gregory playing Cathleen ni Houlihan and the last photograph of Yeats.
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