First published in 2021 by Colin Smythe Ltd, Gerrard Cross, Buckinghamshire as the seventeenth volume of the Coole edition of Lady Gregory's writings. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Volume 1. 1882-1900 (All Ireland Review, 15 December 1900). Lady Gregory -- 1882. [On ideals in Ireland] (The Times, 23 October 1882) -- The trial of Arabi Pasha (The Times, 27 November 1882) -- 1883. (Contributor) Paragraph on Arabi (The Times, 28 February 1883) -- Through Portugal (The Fortnightly Review, 1 October 1883) -- A woman's sonnets (manuscript, summer 1883) -- 1884. Glimpses of the Soudan (The Fortnightly Review, 1 March 1884) -- 1884. Unpublished poems. They told me love was dead (undated) -- The guide of Islam (August 1885) -- Border-land (?November 1885) -- Homewards (April 1886) -- I sat within my shaded door (?February 1886) -- If you could know (undated) -- 1887. Over the river (March 1887) -- 1888-90. A lily, azure (The Argosy, June 1890) -- Irene (The Argosy, October 1890) -- 1891. Over the river (later version, February 1891) -- (Contributor) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1891) -- 1892. Arabi Pasha (The Spectator, 13 February 1892) -- 1893-94. Our boys in India (manuscript, summer 1894) -- On church services (manuscript, summer 1894) -- Dies irae (The Sketch, 25 March 1896) -- 1895. Irish superstitions (The Spectator, 20 April 1895) -- 'Eothen' and the Athenaeum Club (Blackwood's Magazine, December 1895) -- 1896. Gort industries (Erin, November 1896) -- 1897. Irish visions (The Spectator, 10 July 1897) -- To the guarantors for a proposed "Celtic" theatre -- 1898. Tree planting (The Irish Homestead, 12 and 19 February 1898) -- A short catechism on the financial claims of Ireland (Spring 1898) -- Some folk stories of Usheen (Dublin Daily Express, 17 September 1898) -- Ireland, real and ideal (The Nineteenth Century, November 1898) -- Children's folk tales (The Kilkenny Moderator, December 1898) -- 1899. The west awake! (Fáinne an Lae, 21 January 1899) -- Ireland in Bond Street (Dublin Daily Express, 25 February 1899) -- An Italian literary drama (Dublin Daily Express, 8 April 1899) -- Our cottage homes (The Irish Homestead, 27 May 1899) -- Public meeting at Kiltartan (An Claidheamh Soluis, 29 July 1899) -- Turkish (An Claidheamh Soluis, 29 July 1899) -- Lecture at Gort (An Claidheamh Soluis, 12 August 1899) -- The language movement in Ireland (The Speaker, 12 Aug 1899) -- Meeting in Kinvara, County Galway (An Claidheamh Soluis, 12 August 1899) -- (Contributor) "Going to Mass by the will of God" in W.B.Yeats, "Dust hath closed Helen's eye" (The Dome, 2 October 1899) -- Raftery, the poet of the poor (An Claidheamh Soluis, 14 October 1899) -- Irish literary theatre (Irish Weekly Independent, 28 October 1899) -- Political prophecy (The Spectator, 11 November 1899) -- Letter about Raftery's grave (An Claidheamh Soluis, 2 December 1899) -- 1900. Letter about The bending of the bough (All Ireland Review, 3 March 1900) -- An Irish poet (All Ireland Review, 10 March 1900) -- The felons of our land (The Cornhill Magazine, May 1900) -- Telegram to Standish O'Grady (All Ireland Review, 26 May 1900) -- Letter about bi-lingual education in Ireland (An Claidheamh Soluis, 18 August 1900) -- Raftery's grave (An Claidheamh Soluis, 8 September 1900) -- Sir Frederic Burton (The Leader, 8 December 1900) -- Rival poets (The Irish Homestead, 8 December 1900) -- [On ideals in Ireland] (All Ireland Review, 15 December 1900).
Summary:
"This first volume of Lady Gregory's Shorter Writings covers the years 1882-1900. Edited and introduced by James Pethica, it makes available all the previously uncollected work she wrote for publication during the period, including newly-discovered articles, material that was never printed, and items that appeared anonymously or pseudonymously. The volume begins with her first independent publication, Arabi and His Household (1882), written in support of the deposed leader of the Egyptian Nationalist rebellion, who faced likely execution by the British. Gregory's travel journalism and other occasional writings of the 1880s were sufficient to catch the attention of Oscar Wilde, who praised her "clever pen" and invited her to contribute to The Woman's World, the periodical he edited. Also included here are more than a dozen unpublished poems, often highly personal, written during her travels to India and Ceylon, along with the sequence of twelve sonnets she gave Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1883 as they ended their clandestine affair. Writings from the early 1890s include one short story set in Italy, and another with a plot her friend Henry James briefly considered using as the basis for a novel. Gregory's publications from the mid-1890s offer sharp new insight into her growing interest in Irish folklore, her emergence as an Irish nationalist, and her enthusiasm for the Irish language and the Gaelic League. Key works include a previously unpublished pamphlet on the inequities of Irish taxation, and Gregory's first substantial folklore essays. The last writings in the volume register her increasing centrality in the emergence of the Irish Literary Theatre, her developing friendship and collaborations with W.B.Yeats, and her growing confidence in her creative voice as she began her rise to prominence."-- Provided by publisher.
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