Complex character with more than one string to her bow

Lady Gregory: An Irish Life

The fact that this response was transfigured years later by WB Yeats in Beautiful Lofty Things is another indicator, this time of the complex relationship between this west of Ireland landowner and the sophisticated man of literary fame.

However, anyone expecting Judith Hill’s biography of Lady Gregory to concentrate on a relationship supposed to define the importance of the doyenne of Coole Park and the Abbey Theatre is in for a surprise. This is a biography of exhaustive, but not exhausting, detail. There were many Augusta Gregorys, and only one or two Yeats.