Becoming George by Ann Saddlemyer
Ann Saddlemyer's biography of W.B. Yeats's wife, George, portrays a talented woman whose creative influence has never been fully understood. She was wife and manager of a famous poet, and mother to his children, but also an inspired visionary and a practical woman of the arts.
Review from previous edition Saddlemyer takes neither a sensational nor reductive view * TLS, Edna Longley *
Ann Saddlemyer has written a profound, exhaustive, and richly evocative life of this truly remarkable woman * John Banville, New York Review of Books *
magnificently authoritative biography..a thoroughly enjoyable though highly demanding read...the steady accumulation of detail subtly discloses the relationships between cause and effect, place and time, desire and experience, personal and public which shaped the life...we will perpetually be in Saddlemyer's debt for recounting that story of what actually happened in such illuminating and engaging detail * Irish Studies Review *
Unputdownable * P.J.Kavanagh, Spectator *
Ann Saddlemyer has written a profound, exhaustive, and richly evocative life of this truly remarkable woman * John Banville, New York Review of Books *
magnificently authoritative biography..a thoroughly enjoyable though highly demanding read...the steady accumulation of detail subtly discloses the relationships between cause and effect, place and time, desire and experience, personal and public which shaped the life...we will perpetually be in Saddlemyer's debt for recounting that story of what actually happened in such illuminating and engaging detail * Irish Studies Review *
Unputdownable * P.J.Kavanagh, Spectator *
Ann Saddlemyer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. She is one of the General Editors of the Cornell Yeats series (publishing the MSS of the entire Yeats canon); and on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, the Irish Studies Review, the Irish University
Review, the Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, and the Shaw Annual; and co-founder of the journal Theatre Research in Canada. She was awarded the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Award for Criticism for her Collected Letters of John Millington Synge (OUP).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198112327 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198112327 |
| Title | Becoming George |
| Author | Ann Saddlemyer |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 848 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography) 2002 |
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