Author:Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory

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Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory
(1852–1932)

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Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse; Irish dramatist and folklorist. With W. B. Yeats and others, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. She also produced a number of books of retellings of stories from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced in these writings, was emblematic of many of the changes to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.

Works

Plays

Twenty Five (1903)
Spreading the News (1904)
Kincora: A Play in Three Acts (1905)
The White Cockade: A Comedy in Three Acts (1905)
Hyacinth Halvey (1906)
The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1906)
The Canavans (1906)
The Rising of the Moon (1907)
Dervorgilla (1907)
The Workhouse Ward (1908)
The Rogueries of Scapin (1908)
The Miser (1909)
Seven Short Plays (1909)
The Image: A Play in Three Acts (1910)
The Deliverer (1911)
Damer’s Gold (1912)
Irish Folk History Plays (First Series 1912, Second Series 1912)
McDonough’s Wife (1913)
The Unicorn from the Stars (1922) (with William Butler Yeats)
The Image and Other Plays (1922)
The Dragon: A Play in Three Acts (1920)
The Would-Be Gentleman (1923)
An Old Woman Remembers (1923)
The Story Brought by Brigit: A Passion Play in Three Acts (1924)
Sancha’s Master (1927)
Dave (1927)

Prose and translations

Arabi and His Household (1882)
Over the River (1887)
A Phantom’s Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin (1893)
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster (1902)
Ulster (1902)
Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish (1903)
Gods and Fighting Men (1904)
- The fate of the children of lir
A Book of Saints and Wonders (1906)
The Kiltartan History Book (1909)
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (1913)
Kiltartan Poetry Book, Translations from the Irish (1919)
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (1920)
Hugh Lane’s Life and Achievement, with some account of the Dublin Galleries (1921)
Case for the Return of Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures to Dublin (1926)
Seventy Years (1974).

The 1916-1930 Journal of Lady Gregory, published 1946 by Lennox Robinson

Works about Gregory

"Gregory, Isabelle Augusta, Lady," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Gregory, Augusta (Lady)," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Gregory, Augusta, Lady," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
"Gregory, Lady Augusta," in Thom's Irish Who's Who (p. 96-97), Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co. (1923)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1932, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 91 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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