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Isabella Augusta Gregory (March 5, 1852 - May 22, 1932), better known simply as Lady Gregory, was an Irish dramatist.

She was born Isabella Augusta Persse in Roxborough, County Galway. She married Sir William Henry Gregory in 1880 and was widowed in 1892. With W B Yeats, she co-founded the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and wrote numerous short works for its players, including:

Works

The works of Lady Gregory marked with (e-book) are freely availables in electronic form from Project Gutenberg. Follow the link, if you wish to retrieve them:

• Spreading the News (1904)
• The Rising of the Moon (1907)
• The Kiltartan Poetry Book (e-book)
• The Kiltartan History Book (e-book)
• New Irish Comedies (e-book)

Date of birth

A worrying number of sources says she was born 5 March 1852. How can we be sure she was born 15 March? -- JackofOz (talk) 11:15, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Forbidding mother

This early introduction may have had a greater impact on her than it otherwise would because the house had no library and her mother ... forbade her to read novels until she was 18.

Can we have a cite for this? It's slightly contrary to what is written in a Master's thesis online: "Although Augusta never received any formal education, she learned to read by sitting in on her brothers' lessons, and she read voraciously. In her early teens she particularly enjoyed "Fenian books," which were collections of ballads written for the Young Irelanders ...[and]... epics like Sir Thomas Mallory's Morte D'Arthur."[1] DrKiernan (talk) 17:04, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Well spotted, I removed the claim. Ceoil (talk) 22:27, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Nice work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.101.134.34 (talk) 02:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Friendship with W.B. Yeats

I see almost no mention of her friendship with Yeats -- wasn't she his patron (or would it be matron)? I took several Irish Literature classes with Maureen Waters at CUNY Queens College, and she often spoke of the closeness between them. --Magmagirl (talk) 13:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand. Yeats is mentioned throughout the article. DrKiernan (talk) 13:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, but not in the context of a close personal friendship. --Magmagirl (talk) 14:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

She did have a close relationship with yeats. He frequently visites her at coole and mentions him extensively in her diaries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.155.160 (talk) 19:27, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

So, do you have any reliable sources for this? If so we could add some details. Without it we can't verify it. ww2censor (talk) 19:34, 3 August 2009 (UTC)