Literary
YEATS
(Georgie Bertha, 1892-1968, wife of the Irish Poet W. B. Yeats)
Typed Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
written on behalf of her husband, saying that her husband asks me to apologise to you for not replying sooner... He only returned to Dublin (after an absence of nine months) on July 26th, went straight to Galway, and is still there. I expect that. he will be in Dublin in November - but that I am afraid will be of no use to you..., 1 side 8vo., 42 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, 6th October
Item Date: 1930
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Background
From their meeting in 1889 Yeats had an obsessive fascination with Maude Gonne, an English heiress and ardent Irish nationalist and she had a significant and lasting effect on his poetry and his life thereafter. However he rejected her proposals of marriage. By 1916, Yeats was 51 years old and determined to marry and produce an heir. Maud had married his rival John MacBride and he had been executed for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, so Yeats hoped that his widow, might remarry. His final proposal to Gonne took place in mid-1916 but he was again turned down. After unsuccessfully pursuing her daughter Iseult Gonne he proposed to 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees and they were married in 1917. Their marriage was a success, in spite of the age difference, and in spite of Yeats's feelings of remorse and regret during their honeymoon. The couple went on to have two children, Anne and Michael.
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