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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Engelsk Paperback
Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Engelsk Paperback

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Colm Tóibín''s Lady Gregory''s Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory.

A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively championing causes close to her heart. At once conservative and radical in her beliefs, she saw no conflict in idealizing and mythologizing the Irish peasantry, for example, while her landlord husband introduced legislation that would, in part, lead to the widespread misery, poverty and starvation of the Great Famine. Nevertheless, as founder of the Abbey Theatre, an outspoken opponent of censorship, and mentor, muse, and mother-figure to W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory played a pivotal role in shaping Irish literary and dramatic history.

Moreover, despite her parents’ early predictions of spinsterhood, she was no matronly figure, engaging in a passionate affair while newly-wedded and, as she approached sixty, falling for a man almost twenty years her junior.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9780330419932
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0330419935
Udg. Dato:
5 sep 2003
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
5 sep 2003
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